Jeremiah 37:8
New International Version
Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’

New Living Translation
Then the Babylonians will come back and capture this city and burn it to the ground.’

English Standard Version
And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

King James Bible
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

New King James Version
And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire.” ’

New American Standard Bible
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.”’

NASB 1995
“The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire."’

NASB 1977
“The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.”’

Legacy Standard Bible
The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.”’

Amplified Bible
And the Chaldeans [of Babylon] will come again and fight against this city, and they will capture it and set it on fire.”’

Christian Standard Bible
The Chaldeans will then return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Chaldeans will then return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

American Standard Version
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Chaldeans shall return and they shall fight with this city, and they shall conquer her and they shall burn her in fire’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

Contemporary English Version
Then the Babylonians will return and attack Jerusalem, and this time they will capture the city and set it on fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

English Revised Version
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the Babylonians will return. They will attack the city, capture it, and burn it down.

Good News Translation
Then the Babylonians will come back, attack the city, capture it, and burn it down.

International Standard Version
and then the Chaldeans will come back to fight against this city, to capture it, and burn it with fire."'

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the Chaldeans shall return, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

Literal Standard Version
and the Chaldeans have turned back and fought against this city, and captured it, and burned it with fire.

Majority Standard Bible
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

New American Bible
The Chaldeans shall return and attack this city; they shall capture it and destroy it by fire.

NET Bible
Then the Babylonian forces will return. They will attack the city and will capture it and burn it down.

New Revised Standard Version
And the Chaldeans shall return and fight against this city; they shall take it and burn it with fire.

New Heart English Bible
The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire."

Webster's Bible Translation
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

World English Bible
The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.”’

Young's Literal Translation
and the Chaldeans have turned back, and fought against this city, and captured it, and burnt it with fire.

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Context
Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah
7“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt. 8Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down. 9This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!…

Cross References
Jeremiah 21:4
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

Jeremiah 32:29
And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

Jeremiah 34:2
The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: "Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

Jeremiah 37:10
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down."

Jeremiah 38:18
But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.'"

Jeremiah 38:23
All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down."


Treasury of Scripture

And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 32:29
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 34:21,22
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you…

Jeremiah 38:23
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

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Jeremiah 37
1. The Egyptians having raised the siege of the Chaldeans,
3. king Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to pray for the people.
6. Jeremiah prophesies the Chaldeans' certain return and victory.
11. He is taken for a fugitive, beaten, and put in prison.
16. He assures Zedekiah of the captivity.
18. Entreating for his liberty, he obtains some favor.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then the Chaldeans
הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים (hak·kaś·dîm)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3778: Chaldeans -- a region of southern Babylon and its inhab

will return
וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ (wə·šā·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

and fight
וְנִלְחֲמ֖וּ (wə·nil·ḥă·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

against
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

this
הַזֹּ֑את (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

city.
הָעִ֣יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

They will capture
וּלְכָדֻ֖הָ (ū·lə·ḵā·ḏu·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

it and burn it down.’
וּשְׂרָפֻ֥הָ (ū·śə·rā·p̄u·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8313: To be, on fire


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