Jeremiah 27:17
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: therefore should this city be laid waste?
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15 For I have not sent them, says the Yahuah, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the Yahuah; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Yahuah'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: therefore should this city be laid waste?
18 But if they prophets, and if the word of the Yahuah be with them, let them now make intercession to the Yahuah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Yahuah, and the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
19 For thus says the Yahuah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,