“Inquire of the Lord on our behalf, since King Nebuchadnezzar[a](A) of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will perform for us something like all his past wondrous works so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”

But Jeremiah answered, “This is what you are to say to Zedekiah: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to repel the weapons of war in your hands,(B) those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans[b] who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the center of this city.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:2 Lit Nebuchadrezzar
  2. 21:4 = Babylonians

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