Jeremiah 37:14

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Summary

Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Said

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Said

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will look after you; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, never mind. Look, the whole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.”

Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Do not deliver me over to the

desire of my adversaries,

For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

Malicious witnesses rise up;

They ask me of things that I do not know.

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

If you are reviled

for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.