Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon. Then you will live. Why should this city be destroyed?

不可听从他们，只管服侍巴比伦王便得存活。这城何致变为荒场呢？

不可听从他们，只管服事巴比伦王，就得存活。何必使这城变为废墟呢？

不可听从他们，只管服事巴比伦王，就得存活。何必使这城变为废墟呢？

你们不可听信他们的话。你们要臣服于巴比伦王，以便存活。何必使这城沦为废墟呢？

你们不要听从他们，只要服事巴比伦王，就可以生存。为什么要使这城变为废墟呢？

不可聽從他們，只管服事巴比倫王便得存活。這城何致變為荒場呢？

不可聽從他們，只管服事巴比倫王，就得存活。何必使這城變為廢墟呢？

不可聽從他們，只管服事巴比倫王，就得存活。何必使這城變為廢墟呢？

你們不可聽信他們的話。你們要臣服於巴比倫王，以便存活。何必使這城淪為廢墟呢？

你們不要聽從他們，只要服事巴比倫王，就可以生存。為甚麼要使這城變為廢墟呢？

你們不要聽他們；只管服事巴比倫王，以得存活。為甚麼要讓這城變為荒廢呢？

勿聽焉、宜事巴比倫王、而得生存、何使斯邑荒蕪哉、

勿聽之、當服事巴比倫王、則可得生、何為欲使斯邑傾圮、

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this city become a ruin?

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

Do not listen to them. Surrender to the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this whole city be destroyed?

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a place of ruins?

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?’”

Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness. The voices of brides and grooms will not be heard anymore. There will be no sounds of joy in the towns of Judah. And there will be no joy in the streets of Jerusalem. The land will become a desert.

“ All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself won’t escape from them. You will be captured by the king of Babylon. And this city will be burned down.”

So Jeremiah said to Zedekiah,“ The Lord God who rules over all is the God of Israel. He says,‘ Give yourself up to the officers of the king of Babylon. Then your life will be spared. And this city will not be burned down. You and your family will remain alive.

But suppose any nation will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. And suppose it serves him. Then I will let that nation remain in its own land. I will let its people plow the land and live there,” ’ ” announces the Lord.I gave the same message to Zedekiah, the king of Judah. I said,“ Put your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. Obey him. Serve his people. Then you will live.Why should you and your people die? Why should you die of war, hunger and plague? That’s what the Lord said would happen to any nation that won’t serve the king of Babylon.