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13 There is no reason why you and your people should die in war[a] or from starvation or disease.[b] That’s what the Lord says will happen to any nation[c] that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 27:13 tn Heb “with/by the sword.”
  2. Jeremiah 27:13 tn Heb “Why should you and your people die…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer made explicit in the translation, “There is no reason!”
  3. Jeremiah 27:13 tn Heb “…disease according to what the Lord spoke concerning the nation that…”

13 Why will you and your people die(A) by the sword, famine and plague(B) with which the Lord has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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