So, now the Lord says, ‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’

They are prophesying lies to you and claiming my authority to do so. But I did not send them. I, the Lord, affirm it!’

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

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

I will provide the priests with abundant provisions. My people will be filled to the full with the good things I provide.”

Rather, each person will die for his own sins. The teeth of the person who eats the sour grapes will themselves grow numb.

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

‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’

Then the Babylonian forces will return. They will attack the city and will capture it and burn it down.

The following events also occurred while the Babylonian forces had temporarily withdrawn from Jerusalem because the army of Pharaoh was coming.

So they pulled Jeremiah up from the cistern with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse.

But Ishmael son of Nethaniah managed to escape from Johanan along with eight of his men, and he went on over to Ammon.

They went on to Egypt because they refused to obey the Lord, and came to Tahpanhes.

The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power?

But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.

Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” says the Lord. The judgment against Moab ends here.

Yet in days to come I will reverse Ammon’s ill fortune.” says the Lord.

“Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” says the Lord.

Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.