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16 “Go and say to Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying,[a] ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: “Look, I am about to bring my words to pass against this city for evil and not for good. And they will be before you[b] on that day. 17 But I will rescue you on that day,” declares[c] Yahweh, “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are frightened.[d] 18 For surely I will save you, and you will not fall by the sword. But your life will be for you as booty because you have trusted in me,” declares[e] Yahweh.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:16 Literally “to say”
  2. Jeremiah 39:16 Literally “to the face of you”
  3. Jeremiah 39:17 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 39:17 Literally “who you are frightened from the face of them”
  5. Jeremiah 39:18 Literally “a declaration of”