Jeremiah 27:9-18

9But as for you, 1do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your 2dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10For they prophesy a 3lie to you in order to 4remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish. 11But the nation which will 5bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will 6let remain on its land,” declares the Lord, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”

12I spoke words like all these to 7Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people, and live! 13Why will you 8die, you and your people, by the sword, famine and pestilence, as the Lord has spoken to that nation which will not serve the king of Babylon? 14So 9do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a 10lie to you; 15for 11I have not sent them,” declares the Lord, “but they 12prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may 13drive you out and that you may perish, 14you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

16Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the 15vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon’; for they are prophesying a 16lie to you. 17Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city 17become a ruin? 18But 18if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now 19entreat the Lord of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.