Jeremiah 38:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹ Zedekiah answered, “I can't surrender to the Babylonians. I'm too afraid of the people of Judah who have already joined them. The Babylonians might hand me over to them, and they would torture me.”

²⁰ I said, “If you will just obey the Lord, the Babylonians won't hand you over to those Jews. You will be allowed to live, and all will go well for you. ²¹ But the Lord has shown me that if you refuse to obey,