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

“When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’

‘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.’

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

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

On the day after Gedaliah had been murdered, before anyone even knew about it,

“You must not disobey the Lord your God by saying, ‘We will not stay in this land.’

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

How long will you cry out, ‘Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!’

I, the Lord, affirm that I know how arrogant they are. But their pride is ill-founded. Their boastings will prove to be false.

If grape pickers came to pick your grapes, would they not leave a few grapes behind? If robbers came at night, would they not pillage only what they needed?

They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

They say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note – he gave his promise and did all these things – he will not escape!