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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;

But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with fire.

10 Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army,

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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