Jeremiah 21:7
And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Jeremiah 21:7 belongs to the period of Zedekiah's reign. It stands among the prophet's denunciations against sin. It records severe judgment to come upon Judah, in that those in Jerusalem who survived pestilence, sword, and famine would be handed over to Nebuchadnezzar and to their enemies, who would strike them with the edge of the sword and kill them without sparing, without pity, and without mercy. The word soul in the verse is used in the sense of life, meaning those left in the city would be delivered into the hand of their enemies who would take their lives.