1. King Zedekiah of Judah sent for Pashhur son of Malchiah and for a priest named Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. Then he told them, “Talk with Jeremiah for me.”So they came to me and said,
2. “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia has attacked Judah. Please ask the Lord to work miracles for our people, as he has done in the past, so that Nebuchadnezzar will leave us alone.”
11-12. Pay attention, you who belongto the royal family.Each new day, make surethat justice is done,and rescue thosewho are being robbed.Or else my anger will flame uplike a fire that never goes out.