| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
JER 37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah.
JER 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet
Jeremiah.
JER 37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
JER 37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons,
if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring
him to thee again.
GEN 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his
brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way
in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow
to the grave.
GEN 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
GEN 43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which
they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again,
buy us a little food.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this
land?
JER 37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me
not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
JER 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him
daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in
the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
JER 38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah,
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