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The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:

בְּיַ֣ד (בְּ) be. “in”בָּאֵֽשׁ׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.

וּבְיָד֖וֹ (בְ) ve. “in”

But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:

בֶּחָֽרֶב׃ (בֶּ) be. “by the”

You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.

בְּשָׁל֣וֹם (בְּ) be. “in”

Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.

בְּעָרֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “among”

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;

בִּירֽוּשָׁלִַ֔ם (בִּ) bi. “[was] in”

That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

בָּ֛ם (בָּ֛) ba “by <the>”בִּיהוּדִ֥י (בִּ) bi. “by”

And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

בַבְּרִ֗ית (בַ) va. “in the”בָּ֖ם (בָּ֖) ba “by <the>”

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

בְּי֨וֹם (בְּ) be. “on”

And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:

בְּעֵינַ֔י (בְּ) be. “in”בַּבַּ֕יִת (בַּ) ba. “in the”

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

בְּיַ֣ד (בְּ) be. “in”וּבְיַ֖ד (בְ) ve. “in”

And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.

בְּיַ֣ד (בְּ) be. “in”וּבְיַ֖ד (בְ) ve. “in”וּבְיַד (בְ) ve. “in”

See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.

בָאֵ֑שׁ (בָ) va. “with <the>”

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

בִּימֵ֨י (בִּ) bi. “in”

And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

בָּאֳהָלִ֤ים (בָּ) bo. “in”

And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;

בְּק֨וֹל (בְּ) be. “to”

But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.

בָּֽאֳהָלִ֑ים (בָּֽ) bo. “in <the>”

But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.

בַּעֲל֨וֹת (בַּ) ba. “when”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

Now it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come

בַמְּגִלָּ֣ה (בַ) va. “in the”בְּאָזְנֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “in”בְּי֣וֹם (בְּ) be. “on”בְּאָזְנֵ֧י (בְּ) be. “in”

And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did as Jeremiah the prophet gave him orders to do, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

בַסֵּ֛פֶר (בַ) va. “in the”

Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from f

בַשָּׁנָ֣ה (בַ) va. “in the”בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all

בַּסֵּ֛פֶר (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּלִשְׁכַּ֡ת (בְּ) be. “in”בֶּחָצֵ֣ר (בֶּ) be. “in the”בְּאָזְנֵ֖י (בְּ) be. “in”

Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.

בִּקְרֹ֥א (בִּ) bi “when”בַּסֵּ֖פֶר (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּאָזְנֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “in”