Jeremiah 38
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1Then Sh’fatyah [Yehovah has judged] the son of Mattan [a gift], and G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Pash’chur [freedom], and Yukhal [Yehovah is able] the son of Shelemyah [repaid by Yehovah] [repaid by Yehovah], and Pash’chur [freedom] the son of Malkiyah [my king is Yehovah], heard the words that Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] had spoken unto all the people, saying,
2Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes forth to the Kasdim [clod-breakers] shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
3Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s army, which shall take it.
4Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
5Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.
6Then took they Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and cast him into the dungeon of Malkiyah [my king is Yehovah] the son of the king, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] sunk in the mire.
7Now when ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian), one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength];
8‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] went forth out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,
9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.
10Then the king commanded ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian), saying, Take from hence thirty men with youi, and take up Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
11So ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there old cast clouts (pieces of cloth used to patch) and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed].
12And ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian) said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], Put now [these] old cast clouts (pieces of cloth used to patch) and rotten rags under youri armholes under the cords. And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] did so.
13So they drew up Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] remained in the court of the prison.
14Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king sent, and took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and the king said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], I will ask youi a thing; hide nothing from me.
15Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous], If I declare [it] unto youi, will youi not surely put me to death? and if I give youi counsel, will youi not hearken unto me?
16So Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king swore secretly unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying, [As] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, that made us this soul, I will not put youi to death, neither will I give youi into the hand of these men that seek youri life.
17Then said Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous], Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; If youi will assuredly go forth unto the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity)’s (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes, then youri soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and youi shall live, and youri house:
18But if youi will not go forth to the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity)’s (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and they shall burn it with fire, and youi shall not escape out of their hand.
19And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], I am afraid of the Y’hudim (Judeans) that are fallen to the Kasdim [clod-breakers], lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
20But Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said, They shall not deliver [youi]. Obey, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, the voice of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which I speak unto youi: so it shall be well unto youi, and youri soul shall live.
21But if youi refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has showed me:
22And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]’s house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes, and those [women] shall say, Your1s friends have set youi on, and have prevailed against youi: youri feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.
23So they shall bring out all youri wives and youri children to the Kasdim [clod-breakers]: and youi shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: and youi shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
24Then said Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], Let no man know of these words, and youi shall not die.
25But if the princes hear that I have talked with youi, and they come unto youi, and say unto youi, Declare unto us now what youi have said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put youi to death; also what the king said unto youi:
26Then youi shall say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Y’honatan’s [Yehovah has Given]’s house, to die there.
27Then came all the princes unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
28So Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] abode in the court of the prison until the day that Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] was taken: and he was [there] when Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] was taken.
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