Catholic Public Domain Version

Jeremiah 37:7-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. And the Chaldeans will return and will make war against this city. And they will seize it and burn it with fire.

8. Thus says the Lord: Do not be willing to deceive your own souls, saying: 'The Chaldeans will certainly withdraw and go away from us.' For they will not go away.

9. But even if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and if there were left behind from among them only a few wounded men, they would rise up, each one from his tent, and they would burn this city with fire."

10. Therefore, when the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,

11. Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem, to go into the land of Benjamin, and to distribute a possession there, in the sight of the citizens.