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

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. Then you will live. Why should this city be destroyed?

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?

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?

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

‘ so they shall surrender all your wives and children to the Chaldeans. You shall not escape from their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.’”

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah,“ Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel:‘ If you surely surrender to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land,’ says the Lord,‘ and they shall till it and dwell in it.’”’”I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying,“ Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live!Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?