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Jeremiah 40:1-3 Good News Bible (GNB)

1. The Lord spoke to me after Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, had set me free at Ramah. I had been taken there in chains, along with all the other people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken away as prisoners to Babylonia.

2. The commanding officer took me aside and said, “The Lord your God threatened this land with destruction,

3. and now he has done what he said he would. All this happened because your people sinned against the Lord and disobeyed him.