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

My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!

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

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.’

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

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.

(Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased.

Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about the conversation we have had. If you do, you will die.

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.’

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.

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!’

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?

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

נ (Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.