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So, when speaking to a prophet, ask, "What answer has Adonai given you?" or "What did Adonai say?"

One of the baskets had in it very good figs, like those that ripen first; while the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were inedible.

Then Adonai asked me, "Yirmeyahu, what do you see?" I answered, "Figs — the good figs are very good; but the bad ones are very bad, so bad they are inedible."

"But concerning the bad figs that are so bad as to be inedible, Adonai says: ‘I will make Tzidkiyahu the king of Y'hudah and his leaders resemble them, likewise the rest of Yerushalayim remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.

But you wouldn't listen to me," says Adonai , "so that you could provoke me with the products of your hands, to your own harm."

"You are to say to them, ‘Here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: Drink until you're so drunk that you throw up, fall down, and never get up again, because of the sword I am sending among you!'

So tell them that this is what Adonai says: "If you will not pay attention to me and live according to my Torah, which I have given you,

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and on its inhabitants; because the fact is that Adonai sent me to you to speak all these words, so that you could hear them."

"Did Hizkiyahu king of Y'hudah and all Y'hudah put him to death? Not at all. Rather, he feared Adonai , and prayed for Adonai 's favor; and Adonai relented from the disaster he had pronounced against them. So [if we put Yirmeyahu to death,] we might bring great disaster on ourselves."

But in this situation concerning Yirmeyahu, Achikam the son of Shafan used his influence to help him, so that he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

for they are prophesying lies to you that will result in your being removed far from your land, with my driving you out, so that you perish.

For here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: "I have put a yoke of iron on the necks of all these nations, so that they can serve N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel; and they will serve him; and I have given him the wild animals too."'"

Choose women to marry, and have sons and daughters. Choose wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage to men, so that they can have sons and daughters — increase your numbers there, don't decrease.

For I know what plans I have in mind for you,' says Adonai ,‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future.

thus says Adonai -Tzva'ot: ‘I will attack them with sword, famine and plague; I will make them like bad figs, so bad they are inedible.

"So pay attention now to the word of Adonai , all of you in exile, whom I sent away from Yerushalayim to Bavel.

Your letter said, " Adonai has made you cohen in place of Y'hoyada the cohen, in order to have officials in Adonai 's house who will arrest any crazy person who makes himself out to be a prophet, so that you can restrain him in stocks and collar.

So why haven't you rebuked Yirmeyahu of ‘Anatot, who makes himself out to be a prophet for you?

He even sends word to us in Bavel saying that the exile will last a long time; so build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat what they produce."

"So don't be afraid, Ya‘akov my servant," says Adonai , "or be alarmed, Isra'el; for I will return you from far away and your offspring from their country of exile. Ya‘akov will again be quiet, at rest; and no one will make him afraid.