10. `For thus said Jehovah, Surely at the fulness of Babylon--seventy years--I inspect you, and have established towards you My good word, to bring you back unto this place.
11. For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.
12. `And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,
13. And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;
14. And I have been found of you--an affirmation of Jehovah; and I have turned back [to] your captivity, and have gathered you out of all the nations, and out of all the places whither I have driven you--an affirmation of Jehovah--and I have brought you back unto the place whence I removed you.
15. `Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,
16. Surely thus said Jehovah concerning the king who is sitting on the throne of David, and concerning all the people that is dwelling in this city, your brethren who went not forth with you in the removal;
17. Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Lo, I am sending among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I have given them up as figs that [are] vile, that are not eaten for badness.
18. And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,
19. Because that they have not hearkened unto My words--an affirmation of Jehovah-- that I sent unto them by My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye hearkened not-- an affirmation of Jehovah.
20. `And ye, hear ye a word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity that I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon,