^28 (A)Entreat Yahweh, for God’s ^[a]thunder and hail are too much; and ^(B)I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

³ Yet ^(A)King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and ^(B)Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “^(C)Please pray to Yahweh our God on our behalf.”

¹⁷ Then King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king ^(A)secretly asked him and said, “Is there a ^(B)word from Yahweh?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be ^(C)given into the hand of the king of Babylon!”

⁷ For anyone of the house of Israel or of the ^(A)sojourners who sojourn in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, ^(B)I, Yahweh, will be brought to answer him in My own person.

The Abominations of the Fathers of Israel

20 Now it happened in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, that ^[a]some of the ^(A)elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh and sat before me. ² And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ³ “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “^(B)I will not be inquired of by you.”’