WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.240 Chapter 21. 00:02.180 --> 00:06.740 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent unto him 00:06.740 --> 00:12.360 Pasha, the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maseer the priest, saying, 00:12.960 --> 00:15.320 Inquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us. 00:16.080 --> 00:19.200 For Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, maketh war against us. 00:19.860 --> 00:23.420 If so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, 00:23.420 --> 00:24.920 that he may go up from us. 00:25.520 --> 00:31.120 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord 00:31.120 --> 00:35.540 God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, 00:36.180 --> 00:39.420 wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans, 00:39.680 --> 00:43.560 which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of 00:43.560 --> 00:44.020 this city. 00:44.880 --> 00:48.700 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong 00:48.700 --> 00:51.560 arm, even in anger and in fury and in great wrath. 00:52.320 --> 00:56.180 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. 00:56.660 --> 00:58.500 They shall die of a great pestilence. 00:59.320 --> 01:03.380 And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah, king of Judah, 01:03.540 --> 01:07.540 and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the 01:07.540 --> 01:11.640 pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, 01:11.780 --> 01:16.140 king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those 01:16.140 --> 01:17.060 that seek their life. 01:17.540 --> 01:19.680 And he shall smite them with the edge of the sword. 01:20.060 --> 01:22.820 He shall not spare them, neither have pity nor have mercy. 01:23.720 --> 01:28.260 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I set before 01:28.260 --> 01:29.920 you the way of life and the way of death. 01:30.720 --> 01:34.440 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the 01:34.440 --> 01:35.040 pestilence. 01:35.500 --> 01:39.520 But he that goeth out and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, 01:39.980 --> 01:41.900 and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 01:42.700 --> 01:46.840 For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good, saith the Lord. 01:47.600 --> 01:51.140 It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with 01:51.140 --> 01:51.480 fire. 01:52.360 --> 01:56.160 And touching the house of the king of Judah say, Hear ye the word of the Lord. 01:56.900 --> 02:00.800 O house of David, thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment in the morning, 02:00.980 --> 02:05.180 and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out 02:05.180 --> 02:09.780 like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 02:10.380 --> 02:14.180 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain, 02:14.540 --> 02:18.360 saith the Lord, which say, Who shall come down against us? 02:18.520 --> 02:20.780 or who shall enter into our habitations? 02:21.340 --> 02:24.900 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord, 02:25.320 --> 02:29.380 and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things 02:29.380 --> 02:30.220 round about it.