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| The Book of Jeremiah 37 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:1 | Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias the son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the land of Juda. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:2 | But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land did obey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias the prophet. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:3 | And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to the Lord our God for us. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:4 | Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people r for they had not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these tidings, departed from Jerusalem. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:5 | And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, saying: | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:6 | Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold the army of Pharao, which is come forth to help you, shall return into their own land, into Egypt. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:7 | And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:8 | Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away; | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:9 | But if you should even beat al: the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with Are. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:10 | Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army, | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:11 | Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin: and to divide a possession there in the presence of the citizens. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:12 | And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the captain of the gate, who I was there in his turn, was one named Jerias, the son of Selemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of Jeremias the prophet, saying: Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:13 | And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and brought him to the princes. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:14 | Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they beat him, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for he was chief over the prison. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:15 | So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:16 | Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him secretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord? And Jeremias said: There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:17 | And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I offended against thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me into prison? | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:18 | Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land? | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:19 | Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. | |||||||||||||||
| Jeremiah 37:20 | Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed into the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent: and Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison. | |||||||||||||||
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