Catholic Public Domain Version
"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. "
— Jeremiah 37:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.”
“And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. ”
“The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.”
“Then the Babylonian forces will return. They will attack the city and will capture it and burn it down.”
“Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away.”
“And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.”
“And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.”
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: So shall you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to question me: Behold, the army of Pharaoh, which has gone forth in assistance to you, will return to their own land, into Egypt.
And the Chaldeans will return and will make war against this city. And they will seize it and burn it with fire.
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.
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.”
Therefore, when the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,
Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem, to go into the land of Benjamin, and to distribute a possession there, in the sight of the citizens.