In anger, in fury, and in wrath I myself will fight against you with my mighty power and great strength!

My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.

So Jeremiah was put in prison in a cell in the dungeon in Jonathan’s house. He was kept there for a long time.

Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters. A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him.

Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.

Do you see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;

I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.’

In the presence of all these people I instructed Baruch,

all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, those in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the region of southern Egypt.

“Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. They will be like an overflowing stream. They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood. They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants. People will cry out in alarm. Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain.

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Indeed, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all has already spoken about the valuable articles that are left in the Lord’s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Then the prophet Jeremiah responded to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the Lord’s temple.

In the seventh month of that very same year the prophet Hananiah died.

“You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news for us here in Babylon.’

Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

The following events occurred in that same year, early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah. To be more precise, it was the fifth month of the fourth year of his reign. The prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, spoke to Jeremiah in the Lord’s temple in the presence of the priests and all the people.

“The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. He has put you in charge in the Lord’s temple of controlling any lunatic who pretends to be a prophet. And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck.