Jeremiah 21:6-8

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶ “And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.

⁷ “And after this,” says the LORD, “I will deliver Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city, from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall neither spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

⁸ “And to this people you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.