Jeremiah 27:16-18

Living Bible

¹⁶ I spoke again and again to the priests and all the people and told them: “This is what the Lord says! Don’t listen to your prophets who are telling you that soon the gold dishes taken from the Temple will be returned from Babylon. It is all a lie. ¹⁷ Don’t listen to them. Surrender to the king of Babylon and live, for otherwise this whole city will be destroyed. ¹⁸ If they are really God’s prophets, then let them pray to the Lord Almighty that the gold dishes still here in the Temple, left from before, and that those in the palace of the king of Judah and in the palaces in Jerusalem will not be carried away with you to Babylon!