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19 because they did not listen to my words,’ declares[a] Yahweh, ‘when I sent to them my servants the prophets, sending over and over again,[b] and they would not listen,’ declares[c] Yahweh.

20 And you, hear the word of Yahweh, all you exiles[d] whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 21 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in my name a lie, ‘Look, I am going to give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and he will strike them before your eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:19 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 29:19 Literally “doing early and sending”
  3. Jeremiah 29:19 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 29:20 Hebrew “exile”