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But if they had stood in the meeting of angels, they would have told my message to my people. They would have turned the people from their evil ways and from doing evil.

Is straw the same thing as wheat?" says the Lord . "If a prophet wants to tell about his dreams, let him! But let the person who hears my message speak it truthfully!

But you will never again say, ‘The message of the Lord ,' because the only message you speak is your own words. You have changed the words of our God, the living God, the Lord All-Powerful.

But don't say, ‘The message from the Lord .' If you use these words, this is what the Lord says: Because you called it a ‘message from the Lord ,' though I told you not to use those words,

One of the baskets had very good figs in it, like figs that ripen early in the season. But the other basket had figs too rotten to eat.

The Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "I see figs. The good figs are very good, but the rotten figs are too rotten to eat."

I will look after them and bring them back to the land of Judah. I will not tear them down, but I will build them up. I will not pull them up, but I will plant them so they can grow.

"‘But the bad figs are too rotten to eat.' So this is what the Lord says: ‘Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and all the people from Jerusalem who are left alive, even those who live in Egypt, will be like those rotten figs.

The Lord has spoken his word to me again and again for these past twenty-three years. I have been a prophet since the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah. I have spoken messages from the Lord to you from that time until today, but you have not listened.

The Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you over and over again, but you have not listened or paid any attention to them.

"But you people of Judah did not listen to me," says the Lord . "You made me angry by worshiping idols that were the work of your own hands, so I punished you."

"But when the seventy years have passed, I will punish the king of Babylon and his entire nation for their evil," says the Lord . "I will make that land a desert forever.

and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other. I made all the kingdoms on earth drink from the cup of the Lord 's anger, but the king of Babylon will drink from this cup after all the others.

You must listen to what my servants the prophets say to you. I have sent them to you again and again, but you did not listen.

But be sure of one thing. If you kill me, you will be guilty of killing an innocent person. You will make this city and everyone who lives in it guilty, too! The Lord truly sent me to you to give you this message."

When King Jehoiakim, all his army officers, and all the leaders of Judah heard Uriah preach, King Jehoiakim wanted to kill Uriah. But Uriah heard about it and was afraid. So he escaped to Egypt.

"‘"But if some nations or kingdoms refuse to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and refuse to be under his control, I will punish them with war, hunger, and terrible diseases, says the Lord . I will use Nebuchadnezzar to destroy them.

But the nations who put themselves under the control of the king of Babylon and serve him I will let stay in their own country, says the Lord . The people from those nations will live in their own land and farm it."'"

But the false prophets are saying, ‘You will never be slaves to the king of Babylon.' Don't listen to them because they are prophesying lies to you!

Don't listen to those prophets. But serve the king of Babylon, and you will live. There is no reason for you to cause Jerusalem to become a ruin.