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“Tell all the people, ‘This is what the Lord says: Take your choice of life or death! Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will live. Their reward will be life! 10 For I have decided to bring disaster and not good upon this city, says the Lord. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, and he will reduce it to ashes.’

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“You shall also say to this people, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I (A)set before you the way of life and the way of death. He who (B)inhabits this city will die by the (C)sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as spoil. 10 For I have (D)set My face against this city for [a]evil and not for good,” declares Yahweh. “It will be (E)given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will (F)burn it with fire.”’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 21:10 Or calamity