All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

You will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons, ‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say, ‘Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right!

They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered. They say, “Everything will be all right!” But everything is not all right!

The Lord says, “I have heard what those prophets who are prophesying lies in my name are saying. They are saying, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!’

Then some of the elders of Judah stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am no longer allowed to go into the Lord’s temple.

Ebed Melech departed the palace and went to speak to the king. He said to him,

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had issued orders concerning Jeremiah. He had passed them on through Nebuzaradan, the captain of his royal guard,

Now the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:

Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month:

In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: