Jeremiah 37:20
ContextNETBible | But now please listen, your royal Majesty, 1 and grant my plea for mercy. 2 Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary. If you do, I will die there.” 3 |
NIV © biblegateway Jer 37:20 |
But now, my lord the king, please listen. Let me bring my petition before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, or I shall die there." |
NASB © biblegateway Jer 37:20 |
"But now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petition come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there." |
NLT © biblegateway Jer 37:20 |
Listen, my lord the king, I beg you. Don’t send me back to the dungeon in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for I will die there." |
MSG © biblegateway Jer 37:20 |
Listen to me, please, my master--my king! Please don't send me back to that dungeon in the house of Jonathan the secretary. I'll die there!" |
BBE © SABDAweb Jer 37:20 |
And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there. |
NRSV © bibleoremus Jer 37:20 |
Now please hear me, my lord king: be good enough to listen to my plea, and do not send me back to the house of the secretary Jonathan to die there." |
NKJV © biblegateway Jer 37:20 |
"Therefore please hear now, O my lord the king. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there." |
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HEBREW |
NETBible | But now please listen, your royal Majesty, 1 and grant my plea for mercy. 2 Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary. If you do, I will die there.” 3 |
NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “My lord, the king.” 2 tn Heb “let my plea for mercy fall before you.” I.e., let it come before you and be favorably received (= granted; by metonymical extension). 3 tn Or “So that I will not die there,” or “or I will die there”; Heb “and I will not die there.” The particle that introduces this clause (וְלֹא) regularly introduces negative purpose clauses after the volitive sequence (אַל [’al] + jussive here) according to GKC 323 §109.g. However, purpose and result clauses in Hebrew (and Greek) are often indistinguishable. Here the clause is more in the nature of a negative result. |