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New Living Translation (NLT)

Jeremiah 39
⁶ He made Zedekiah watch as they slaughtered his sons and all the nobles of Judah.
⁷ Then they gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.
⁸ Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, including the palace, and tore down the walls of the city.
⁹ Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, sent to Babylon the rest of the people who remained in the city as well as those who had defected to him.
¹⁰ But Nebuzaradan left a few of the poorest people in Judah, and he assigned them vineyards and fields to care for.
¹¹ King Nebuchadnezzar had told Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, to find Jeremiah.
¹² “See that he isn’t hurt,” he said. “Look after him well, and give him anything he wants.”
¹³ So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard; Nebushazban, a chief officer; Nergal-sharezer, the king’s adviser; and the other officers of Babylon’s king
¹⁴ sent messengers to bring Jeremiah out of the prison. They put him under the care of Gedaliah son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, who took him back to his home. So Jeremiah stayed in Judah among his own people.
¹⁵ The LORD had given the following message to Jeremiah while he was still in prison:
¹⁶ “Say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will do to this city everything I have threatened. I will send disaster, not prosperity. You will see its destruction,