1Jeremiah sent a letter from Jerusalem to the elders who were left among the exiles, to the priests, prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon,
2after King Jeconiah, with the queen mother and the eunuchs, the officers of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had left Jerusalem.
3The prophet entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom King Zedekiah of Judah had sent to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what he wrote:
4These are the words of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: To all the exiles whom I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat the produce;
6marry wives and rear families; choose wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters. Increase there and do not dwindle away.
7Seek the welfare of any city to which I have exiled you, and pray to the LORD for it; on its welfare your welfare will depend.
8For these are the words of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and pay no attention to the women whom you set to dream dreams.
9They prophesy falsely to you in my name; I did not send them. This is the word of the LORD.
10These are the words of the LORD: When a full seventy years have passed over Babylon, I shall take up your cause and make good my promise to bring you back to this place.
11I alone know my purpose for you, says the LORD: wellbeing and not misfortune, and a long line of descendants after you.
12If you invoke me and come and pray to me, I shall listen to you:
13when you seek me, you will find me; if you search wholeheartedly,
14I shall let you find me, says the LORD. I shall restore your fortunes; I shall gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I have banished you, says the LORD, and restore you to the place from which I carried you into exile.
15You say that the LORD has raised up prophets for you in Babylon.
16These are the words of the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David and all the people who live in this city, your fellow-countrymen who have not gone into exile with you.
17These are the words of the LORD of Hosts: I am bringing sword, famine, and pestilence on them, making them like rotten figs, too bad to eat.
18I shall pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, an object of execration and horror, of derision and reproach among all the nations to which I have banished them.
19Just as they did not listen to my words, says the LORD, when time and again I sent my servants the prophets, so you did not listen, says the LORD.
20But now listen to the words of the LORD, all you exiles whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21These are the words of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who prophesy lies to you in my name. I am handing them over to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes.
22Their names will be used by all the exiles of Judah in Babylon when they curse anyone; they will say: May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted to death in the fire!
23For their conduct in Israel was an outrage: they committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and prophesied in my name without my authority, and what they prophesied was false. I am he who knows and can testify. This is the word of the LORD.
24To Shemaiah the Nehelamite.
25These are the words of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: You have sent a letter on your own authority to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, in which you say:
26“The LORD has appointed you to be priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, and it is your duty, as officer in charge of the LORD's house, to put every crazy person who poses as a prophet into the stocks and the pillory.
27Why, then, have you not restrained Jeremiah of Anathoth, who acts the prophet among you?
28On the strength of this he has sent us a message in Babylon to say, ‘Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
29When Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet,
30this word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
31Send and tell all the exiles that these are the words of the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and has led you to trust in false prophecies,
32these are now the words of the LORD: I shall punish Shemaiah and his posterity. He will leave no one to take his place in this nation and witness the wellbeing which I shall bestow on my people, says the LORD, because he has urged rebellion against me.
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