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The Babylonians will return and attack this city. They will capture it and burn it down.”

The Lord proclaims: Don’t let yourself be deceived into thinking that the Babylonians will withdraw for good.[a] They won’t! 10 Even if you were to crush the entire Babylonian army that’s attacking you and only the wounded in their tents remained, they would rise up and burn this city down.

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  1. Jeremiah 37:9 Heb lacks for good.

Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture(A) it and burn(B) it down.’

“This is what the Lord says: Do not deceive(C) 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(D) this city down.”

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Footnotes

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