Thus saith the Lord, [a]Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

10 For though ye had smitten the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained, but wounded men among them, yet should every man rise up in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

11 ¶ When the host of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem, because of Pharaoh’s army,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:9 Or, lift not up your minds.

“This is what the Lord says: Do not deceive(A) yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not! 10 Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian[a] army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn(B) this city down.”

11 After the Babylonian army had withdrawn(C) from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 37:10 Or Chaldean; also in verse 11