21 Accordingly King Zed·e·kiʹah commanded, and they then put Jeremiah in custody in the Courtyard of the Guard;+ and there was a giving of a round loaf of bread to him daily from the street of the bakers,+ until all the bread was exhausted from the city.+ And Jeremiah continued dwelling in the Courtyard of the Guard.+

2 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘The one continuing to dwell in this city is the one that will die by the sword,+ by the famine+ and by the pestilence.+ But the one going out to the Chal·deʹans is the one that will keep living and that will certainly come to have his soul as a spoil and alive.’+

12 A third of you—by the pestilence they will die,+ and by famine they will come to their end in the midst of you.+ And another third—by the sword they will fall all around you. And the [last] third I shall scatter even to every wind,+ and a sword is what I shall draw out after them.+

15 The sword+ is outside, and the pestilence and the famine are inside.+ Whoever is in the field, by the sword he will die, and whoever are in the city, famine and pestilence themselves will devour them.+

21 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘So, too, [it will be] when there will be my four injurious acts of judgment+—sword and famine and injurious wild beast and pestilence+—that I shall actually send upon Jerusalem in order to cut off from it earthling man and domestic animal.+