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Jeremiah 38:22

World English Bible

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say,
“Your familiar friends have turned on you,
and have prevailed over you.
Your feet are sunk in the mire,
they have turned away from you.”

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Jeremiah 38:22 in other translations

Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

Jeremiah 38:22 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 38:22 in context

  1. 20But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.
  2. 21But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:
  3. 22‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say,
    “Your familiar friends have turned on you,
    and have prevailed over you.
    Your feet are sunk in the mire,
    they have turned away from you.”
  4. 23They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’ ”
  5. 24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.