²³ because they have committed an outrage^(A) in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.

²⁴ To Shemaiah the Nehelamite you are to say, ²⁵ ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You^[a] in your own name have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah^(B) son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying,