^19 (A)Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

¹⁰ Then the prophet Hananiah took the ^(A)yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them. ¹¹ And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, ^(B)“Thus says the Lord: ^(C)Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of ^(D)all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

¹² Sometime after the prophet ^(E)Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ¹³ “Go, tell Hananiah, ‘Thus says the Lord: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron. ¹⁴ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations ^(F)an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(G)and they shall serve him, ^(H)for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’” ¹⁵ And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, ^(I)the Lord has not sent you, ^(J)and you have made this people trust in a lie. ¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, ^(K)because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’”

¹⁷ In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.

³¹ “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord concerning ^(A)Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because ^(B)Shemaiah had prophesied to you ^(C)when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,

Hananiah the False Prophet

28 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of ^(A)Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of ^(B)Azzur, the prophet from ^(C)Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, ² “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(D)I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. ^3 (E)Within ^(F)two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. ⁴ I will also bring back to this place ^(G)Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the Lord, ^(H)for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

⁵ Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord,

^14 (A)Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ ^(B)for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. ¹⁵ I have not sent them, declares the Lord, but ^(C)they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”

¹⁶ Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: ^(D)Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ^(E)‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ ^(F)for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. ^17 (G)Do not listen to them; ^(H)serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city ^(I)become a desolation? ¹⁸ If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, then ^(J)let them intercede with the Lord of hosts, ^(K)that the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ^(A)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who ^(B)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ^(C)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

Lying Prophets

¹³ Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets ^(A)say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” ¹⁴ And the Lord said to me: “The ^(B)prophets are prophesying lies in my name. ^(C)I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, ^(D)worthless divination, and ^(E)the deceit of their own minds. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although ^(F)I did not send them, and who say, ^(G)‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: ^(H)By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.