³ Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged^(A) and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,^(B)

¹⁸ They said, “Come, let’s make plans^(A) against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest^(B) will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise,^(C) nor the word from the prophets.^(D) So come, let’s attack him with our tongues^(E) and pay no attention to anything he says.”