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But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.

Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies," declares Yahweh, "and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all," declares Yahweh.

And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh, and they will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with the whole of their heart.

And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'"

And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among them."

And it will happen, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "You must certainly drink!

And the slain ones of Yahweh will be on that day from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, and they will not be mourned, and they will not be gathered, and they will not be buried. They will become like dung on the surface of the ground.

Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I am planning to do to them because of their evil deeds.

When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the house of the king to the temple of Yahweh, and they sat in the entrance of the New Gate of Yahweh's temple.

And they brought out Uriah from Egypt and they brought him to King Jehoiakim, and he struck him down with the sword, and he threw his dead body into the burial sites of the sons of the people.

For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish.

But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land," declares Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it."'"

And you must not listen to the words of the prophets who are speaking to you, saying, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are prophesying a lie to you.

For I have not sent them," declares Yahweh, "but they are prophesying in my name falsely, so that I will drive them away. And you will perish—you and the prophets who are prophesying to you."

Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, ‘You must not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, "Look, the vessels of the house of Yahweh are about to be quickly brought back from Babylon", for they are prophesying a lie to you.

But if they are prophets, and if there is with them the word of Yahweh, let them please plead with Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels that are left over in the temple of Yahweh, and the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, must not go to Babylon.'

‘They will be brought to Babylon, and there they will stay until the day of my attending to them,' declares Yahweh. ‘Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.'"

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and they will serve him, and I have even given the animals of the open field to him."'"

Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few.

because they did not listen to my words,' declares Yahweh, ‘when I sent to them my servants the prophets, sending over and over again, and they would not listen,' declares Yahweh.