Jeremiah 40:1-3

Good News Translation

Jeremiah Stays with Gedaliah

40 The Lord spoke to me after Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, had set me free at Ramah. I had been taken there in chains, along with all the other people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken away as prisoners to Babylonia.

² The commanding officer took me aside and said, “The Lord your God threatened this land with destruction, ³ and now he has done what he said he would. All this happened because your people sinned against the Lord and disobeyed him.