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Prophets if they be, spokesmen of the Lord if they be, let them rather plead with him, the Lord of hosts, that the treasures still left in temple and palace and city may not find their way to Babylon too. (Jeremiah 27, 18)
when Joachim’s son Jechonias, that once reigned in Juda, was carried off to Nabuchodonosor’s capital at Babylon, with all the notables of this city and realm. (Jeremiah 27, 20)
This he would have you know, he, the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, that all the treasures left in temple, palace or city (Jeremiah 27, 21)
Nay, says the Lord, I mean to bring tent-dwelling Jacob home, have pity on those ruined walls, build the city anew on its height, set up the temple and its ordinances anew; (Jeremiah 30, 18)
Behold, says the divine promise, a time is coming when the city shall be rebuilt in the Lord’s honour, from Hananeel’s Tower as far as the Corner Gate; (Jeremiah 31, 38)
Here are siege-works raised to reduce the city; sword and famine and pestilence are giving it over to the Chaldaeans for their prey; of all thou hast threatened thou seest here the fulfilment. (Jeremiah 32, 24)
And now, Lord God, thou wouldst have me buy land, and call in witnesses of payment made; now, when this city lies at the mercy of the Chaldaeans! (Jeremiah 32, 25)
This is the divine sentence;✻ I mean to hand over this city to capture by the king of Babylon and his Chaldaeans; they shall take it by storm, (Jeremiah 32, 28)
Anger and scorn this city of theirs has earned from me, nothing else, from the day they built it to this day when I purpose that it shall offend my sight no more; (Jeremiah 32, 31)
What, then, of this city, doomed in your eyes to fall into the power of Babylon’s king, through sword and famine and pestilence? This is the message the Lord God of Israel sends to it: (Jeremiah 32, 36)
Come they to fight against the Chaldaeans, it is but to strew those earthworks with their own dead bodies; in anger and scorn I will smite them down, turning my back on the city they have stained with such guilt …✻ (Jeremiah 33, 5)
This was the message sent by the Lord God of Israel: Go and warn Sedecias, king of Juda, in my name that I mean to hand over this city to the Babylonian king, who will burn it to the ground. (Jeremiah 34, 2)
