27. Why, then, have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who poses as a prophet among you?
28. For he sent this message to us in Babylon: It will be a long time; build houses to live in; plant gardens and eat their fruit. . . .”
29. When the priest Zephaniah read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet,
30. the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
31. Send to all the exiles: Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah, the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah prophesies to you, although I did not send him, and has led you to rely on a lie,
32. therefore thus says the Lord, I will punish Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, and his descendants. None of them shall dwell among this people to see the good I will do for this people—oracle of the Lord—because he preached rebellion against the Lord.