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who intend to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they recount to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?

For you will no longer remember the oracle of Yahweh because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.

For if you all say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh!' surely thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you said this word, "The oracle of Yahweh!" I have also sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, ‘The oracle of Yahweh!'"'

"Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Because you have not listened to My words,

They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

"You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you."'

He has forsaken His hiding place like the lion;For their land has become an object of horrorBecause of the burning desire of the oppressorAnd because of His burning anger."

Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil which I am devising to bring against them because of the evil of their deeds.'

Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This year you are going to die because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.'"

"Because you have said, ‘Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'—

because they have not listened to My words,' declares Yahweh, ‘which I sent to them by My slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending; but you did not listen,' declares Yahweh.

And because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire

because they have acted with wicked foolishness in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness," declares Yahweh.'"

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

"Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,"

therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed; he will not have anyone living among this people, and he will not see the good that I am about to do to My people," declares Yahweh, "because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh."'"

All your lovers have forgotten you;They do not seek you;For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,With the punishment of a cruel one,Because your iniquity is numerousAnd your sins are mighty.

For I will restore you to health,And I will heal you of your wounds,' declares Yahweh,‘Because they have called you a banished one, saying:"It is Zion; no one is seeking her."'

because Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it;

Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has happened; and behold, You see it.