13. Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14. Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.
15. For I have not sent them,” says the Lord, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
16. Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, the Lord says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.
17. Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
18. But if they are prophets, and if the Lord’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the Lord’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.
19. For the Lord of Hosts says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,
20. which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
21. yes, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in the Lord’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
22. ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says the Lord; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’”