⁸ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(A)Do not let your prophets and ^(B)your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,^[a]

^6 (A)Let no one ^(B)deceive you with empty words, for because of these things ^(C)the wrath of God comes upon ^(D)the sons of disobedience.

⁹ The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan ^(A)with all power and false signs and wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception for ^(B)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹ Therefore ^(C)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe ^(D)what is false,

² And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth ^(A)will be blasphemed. ³ And ^(B)in their greed they will exploit you ^(C)with false words. ^(D)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

¹³ while ^(A)evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and ^(B)being deceived.

¹⁵ And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, ^(A)the Lord has not sent you, ^(B)and you have made this people trust in a lie.

^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.”

⁹ So ^(A)do not listen to your ^(B)prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your ^(C)fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’