7. Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
8. The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.
9. The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that the Lord has truly sent him.”
10. Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.
11. Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “the Lord says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the neck of all the nations within two full years.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12. Then the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,