Jer 37:10 | NET2full | STEP | For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents , they would get up and burn this city down .”’”

‏ Jeremiah 37:10

10 For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces ^{▼▼tn Heb “all the army of the Chaldeans.” For the rendering “Babylonian” in place of Chaldean, see the study note on 21:4.} fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down.”’” ^{▼▼tn The condition here is, of course, purely hypothetical, and the consequence is a poetic exaggeration. The intent is to assure Zedekiah that there is absolutely no hope of the city being spared.}