The Lord says to her, “Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! For your heartfelt repentance will be rewarded. Your children will return from the land of the enemy. I, the Lord, affirm it!

However, listen to what I, the Lord, promise you, King Zedekiah of Judah. I, the Lord, promise that you will not die in battle or be executed.

So Baruch son of Neriah did exactly what the prophet Jeremiah had told him to do. He read what the Lord had said from the scroll in the temple of the Lord.

Now he has brought it about. The Lord has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the Lord and did not obey him.

All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.’

“Why do you try to refute me? All of you have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.

These people make promises in the name of the Lord. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.”

They are regarded as ‘rejected silver’ because the Lord rejects them.”

The Lord said to Jeremiah:

I said, “There is no one like you, Lord. You are great. And you are renowned for your power.

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

The Lord said to Jeremiah:

So I bought the shorts as the Lord had told me to do and put them on.

So I went and buried them at Perath as the Lord had ordered me to do.

Then I said to the people of Judah, “Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

Lord, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

Lord, grant me relief from my suffering so that I may have some relief. Rescue me from those who persecute me so that I may be rescued.

The Lord said to Jeremiah:

Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks.

Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the Lord.