So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life.
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:
These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe.
But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.
For I will certainly let you go free, and you will not be put to the sword, but your life will be given to you out of the hands of your attackers: because you have put your faith in me, says the Lord.
And said to him, Has it come to your knowledge that Baalis, the king of the children of Ammon, has sent Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to take your life? But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, put no faith in what they said.
Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, said to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, Let me now go and put Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to death without anyone's knowledge: why let him take your life so that all the Jews who have come together to you may be sent in flight, and the rest of the men of Judah come to an end?
Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.
And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.
A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.
And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.
The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.
By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.
Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.
But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
(For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.
If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.
Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
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