Here Jeremiah only relates that he had delivered the message entrusted to him. Here the Prophet’s magnanimity is seen, for as was previously appare…

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words
The threatening, as well as the consolatory ones; he kept back no pa…

Zedekiah is told that the city will be taken, and that he will die a captive, but he will die a natural death. It is better to live and die peniten…

Because the Jews were so obstinate, since they were neither frightened by severity nor moved by kindness, he rightly presents his threat and consol…