Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.

If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you.

This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the drought.

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

The answer will come back, “It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods.”

You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!”

Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by: ‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’

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!’

I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

“Therefore, the Lord who rules over all says, ‘You have not listened to what I said.

When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”

But listen to what I say to you and to all these people.

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to all those he sent into exile to Babylon from Jerusalem,

‘So pay attention to what I, the Lord, have said, all you exiles whom I have sent to Babylon from Jerusalem.’

So here is what the Lord has to say about Israel and Judah.

But they will be subject to the Lord their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.

We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.