Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Ver. 17. Then Zedekiah the king.] Being now in distress because of the Chaldees come again, and willing to hear from the prophet some word of comfort, which yet might not be, unless he had been better. If comfort be applied to a graceless person, the truth of God is falsified.
Is there any word from the Lord?] Any new oracle, and different from that of destruction, which thou hast so often rung in our ears, ad ravim et nauseam usque?
And Jeremiah said, There is,] scil., A word from the Lord, but the same as before; for thou must mend ere the matter will mend with thee.