7. Afterward," says The LORD, "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of NEBUCHADNEZZAR king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy."'

8. "You shall say to this people, 'The LORD says: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

9. He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.

10. For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good," says The LORD. "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire."'

I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of NEBUCHADNEZZAR king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north," says The LORD, "and I will send to NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

6. Now I have given all these lands into the hand of NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.

7. All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.

8. "'"'It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same NEBUCHADNEZZAR king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,' says The LORD, 'with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

9. But as for you, don't listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon;"

Therefore the LORD says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of NEBUCHADNEZZAR king of Babylon, and he will take it.

and tell them, the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I will send and take NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that NEBUCHADNEZZAR king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.