The Lord says, “The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.

In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.

For the Lord will rescue the descendants of Jacob. He will secure their release from those who had overpowered them.

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

“Indeed a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

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

Micaiah, who was the son of Gemariah and the grandson of Shaphan, heard Baruch read from the scroll everything the Lord had said.

They had also heard him say, “The Lord says, ‘This city will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon. They will capture it.’”

But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:

Now the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

Ten days later the Lord spoke to Jeremiah.

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

This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the Lord by doing what he sent me to tell you.

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

“We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us!

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the nations.

A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!

“Moab has vaunted itself against me. So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath until he splashes around in his own vomit, until others treat him as a laughingstock.