For Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had confined him, saying: "Why do you make predictions, saying: 'Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it?
Jeremiah 38:8 - Catholic Public Domain Version And so Ebedmelech departed from the king's house, and he spoke to the king, saying: 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ebed-melech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying, American Standard Version (1901) Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying, Common English Bible Ebed-melech left the palace and said to the king: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Abdemelech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying: English Standard Version 2016 Ebed-melech went from the king’s house and said to the king, |
For Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had confined him, saying: "Why do you make predictions, saying: 'Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it?
Now Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had sent Jeremiah into the pit, and also that the king was sitting at the gate of Benjamin.
"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have perpetrated against Jeremiah the prophet, casting him into the pit so that he would die there from famine. For there is no more bread in the city."
What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.