Jeremiah 27:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

¹⁷ Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?

¹⁸ But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.