Jeremiah 27:17 - Tree of Life Version Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a ruin? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not listen to them or heed them; serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city be laid waste? American Standard Version (1901) Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation? Common English Bible Don’t listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Otherwise, this city will be reduced to ruin. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, do not choose to listen to them, but instead, serve the king of Babylon, so that you may live. Why should this city be given over into desolation? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation? |
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah: Thus says Adonai, Elohim-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “If you will go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then your soul will live, this city will not be burned with fire; and you and your household will survive.
“Then they will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans, and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down with fire.”
Do not be not afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you dread—do not be afraid of him”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“for I am with you to save you, and deliver you from his hand.
Then I will bring an end, from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, to the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be desolate.”