11 “‘“‘But the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will allow to remain* on its land,’ declares Jehovah, ‘to cultivate it and dwell in it.’”’”

17 Jeremiah then said to Zed·e·kiʹah: “This is what Jehovah, the God of armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you surrender* to the princes of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared,* and this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will be spared.+