The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”

Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have?

Not one of them will survive. I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you. A day of reckoning is coming for them.”

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

But I will most surely heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.

ד (Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

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

Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’

I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

“‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.

So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

The king told them, “I have had a dream, and I am anxious to understand the dream.”

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.