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Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.

וּבְעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [ergänzt: to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

while [ergänzt: men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:

מֵהָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,

בְּעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

עָרָ֑יו (עָרָ֑י) 'a.Ra “cities”

In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.

בְּעָרֵ֨י (עָרֵ֨י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”בְּעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:

עָרֶ֖יהָ (עָרֶ֖י) 'a.Rei. “cities”

Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”

when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [ergänzt: alone] remained of the cities of Judah [ergänzt: as] fortified cities.

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”בְּעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “cities of”

Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”עָרֵ֧י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast-day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

מֵעָרֵיהֶ֖ם (עָרֵי) 'a.rei. “cities”

Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.

מֵעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

הָעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “city”

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.

בָּעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

בָּעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.

בָּעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.

וְהָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”

They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.

הָעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “city”

in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.

בָּעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “city”