You should have reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth who is pretending to be a prophet among you!

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.’

Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you think you are godlike,

I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the sovereign Lord.

They will return to Egypt! Assyria will rule over them because they refuse to repent!

Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.

Don’t prophesy at Bethel any longer, for a royal temple and palace are here!”

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion in order to rule over Esau’s mountain. Then the Lord will reign as King!

You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.

‘The silver and gold will be mine,’ says the Lord who rules over all.

Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

And large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan River.

But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?