¹⁷ “What was it he said to you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide^(A) it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely,^(B) if you hide from me anything he told you.” ¹⁸ So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, “He is the Lord; let him do what is good in his eyes.”^(C)

¹⁶ The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”

¹¹ The Lord said,

² Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray^(A) to the Lord your God for this entire remnant.^(B) For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few^(C) are left. ³ Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”^(D)

⁴ “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray^(E) to the Lord your God as you have requested; I will tell^(F) you everything the Lord says and will keep nothing back from you.”^(G)

⁵ Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true^(H) and faithful^(I) witness^(J) against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the Lord your God sends you to tell us.

²⁰ that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’^(A)