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29.23 Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I commanded them not; but I am He that knoweth, and am witness, saith the.

And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying: Thus speaketh the of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying: 'The  hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers in the house of the  for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in the collar. Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you, forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying: The captivity is long; build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?' And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. Then came the word of the unto Jeremiah, saying: Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the  concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in a lie; therefore thus saith the : Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do unto My people, saith the ; because he hath spoken perversion against the.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the, saying: 'Thus speaketh the , the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days come, saith the, that I will turn the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, saith the ; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'

And these are the words that the spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the :


 * We have heard a voice of trembling,
 * Of fear, and not of peace.
 * Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child;
 * Wherefore do I see every man
 * With his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail,
 * And all faces are turned into paleness?
 * Alas! for that day is great,
 * So that none is like it;
 * And it is a time of trouble unto Jacob,
 * But out of it shall he be saved.
 * And it shall come to pass in that day,
 * Saith the of hosts,
 * That I will break his yoke from off thy neck,
 * And will burst thy bands;
 * And strangers shall no more make him their bondman;
 * But they shall serve the their God,
 * And David their king,
 * Whom I will raise up unto them.


 * Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob My servant, saith the ;