Jeremiah 38:21

Bible in Basic English

But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the verdict that the Lord has shown me:

Hebrew Names Version
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

King James Version
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the Lord hath shewed me:

English Standard Version
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the Lord has shown to me:

New American Standard Bible
"But if you keep refusing to surrender, this is the word which the LORD has shown me:

New Century Version
But if you refuse to surrender to the Babylonians, the Lord has shown me what will happen.

Amplified Bible
"But if you keep refusing to go out and surrender to them, this is the word [and the vision] which the LORD has shown me:

World English Bible
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

Geneva Bible (1587)
But if thou wilt refuse to go forth, this is the worde that the Lorde hath shewed me.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which Yahweh has shown me:

Berean Standard Bible
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

Contemporary English Version
But the Lord has shown me that if you refuse to obey,

Complete Jewish Bible
But if you refuse to surrender, then this is the word Adonai has shown me:

Darby Translation
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word which Jehovah hath shewn me:

Easy-to-Read Version
But if you refuse to surrender to the army of Babylon, the Lord has shown me what will happen. This is what he has told me:

George Lamsa Translation
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

Good News Translation
But the Lord has shown me in a vision what will happen if you refuse to surrender.

Lexham English Bible
But if you are refusing to surrender, this is the thing that Yahweh has shown me.

Literal Translation
But if you refuse to go out, this is the Word Jehovah has made me see:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf thou wilt not go forth, the LORDE hath tolde me this planely:

American Standard Version
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shown me:

King James Version (1611)
But if thou refuse to goe foorth, this is the word that the Lord hath shewed me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But yf thou wylt not go foorth, the Lorde hath tolde me this playnely,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy cities.

English Revised Version
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That if thou wolt not go out, this is the word which the Lord schewide to me, Lo!

Update Bible Version
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

Webster's Bible Translation
But if thou shalt refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD hath shown me:

New English Translation
But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:

New King James Version
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

New Living Translation
But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the Lord has revealed to me:

New Life Bible
But if you will not go out, this is the word which the Lord has shown me:

New Revised Standard
But if you are determined not to surrender, this is what the Lord has shown me—

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But if thou art refusing to go forth, this, is the thing which Yahweh hath shewed me: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord hath shewn me:

Revised Standard Version
But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me:

Young's Literal Translation
`And if thou art refusing to go forth, this [is] the thing that Jehovah hath shewn me:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which the LORD has shown me:

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers' doorway in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah, I have a question to put to you; keep nothing back from me. ¹⁵ Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ 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: ¹⁸ But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them. ¹⁹ And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am troubled on account of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldaeans, for fear that they may give me up to them and they will put me to shame. ²⁰ 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. ²¹ But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me: ²² See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you. ²³ And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if thou: Jeremiah 5:3, Exodus 10:3, Exodus 10:4, Exodus 16:28, Job 34:33, Proverbs 1:24-31, Isaiah 1:19, Isaiah 1:20, Hebrews 12:25

this is: Jeremiah 15:19-21, Jeremiah 26:15, Numbers 23:19, Numbers 23:20, Numbers 24:13, Job 23:13, Ezekiel 2:4, Ezekiel 2:5, Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 3:17-19, Acts 18:6, Acts 20:26, Acts 20:27

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:10 - the Lord Jeremiah 17:27 - then Jeremiah 21:7 - I will Jeremiah 42:19 - know

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if thou refuse to go forth,.... Out of Jerusalem, to the Chaldean army, and submit to them:

this [is] the word that the Lord hath showed me, or the thing which should certainly come to pass; the word of prophecy the Lord had showed to the prophet, and which he now declares to the king; who asked of him a word, was desirous to know whether there was a word from the Lord, and what it was; and this it is which follows, in case he continued impenitent, obstinate, and disobedient.