Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”
But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you.
Obey, I beg you, the LORD’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.
But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that the LORD has shown me: