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“Inquire of the Lord for us, because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will perform some of his wonders on our behalf as he did in the past, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”

But Jeremiah answered them:

Tell Zedekiah that the Lord, the God of Israel, says this.

I will certainly turn the weapons of war in your hands against you, the ones you are using to fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans,[a] who are outside your wall besieging you. And I will bring them inside this city.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 21:4 The Chaldeans were the ethnic group ruling Babylon at this time.