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

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