“ Don’t say such things,” the people respond.“ Don’t prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!”

“他们说：‘你们不可说预言；不可向这些人说预言，不住地羞辱我们。’

他们传讲说：“不可传讲；人都不可传讲这些事，羞辱不会临到我们。”

他们传讲说：“不可传讲；人都不可传讲这些事，羞辱不会临到我们。”

他们的先知说：“不要说预言了，不要预言这种事，我们不会蒙受羞辱。”

有人预言说：“你们不要说预言；人不可预言这些事；羞耻不会临到我们。”

他們說：你們不可說預言；不可向這些人說預言，不住地羞辱我們。

他們傳講說：「不可傳講；人都不可傳講這些事，羞辱不會臨到我們。」

他們傳講說：「不可傳講；人都不可傳講這些事，羞辱不會臨到我們。」

他們的先知說：「不要說預言了，不要預言這種事，我們不會蒙受羞辱。」

有人預言說：“你們不要說預言；人不可預言這些事；羞恥不會臨到我們。”

有人發神言說：『不可發神言；人不該發神言論到這些事；羞辱是不會趕上來的。』

彼云、爾曹勿言預言、勿道此事、侮辱之言、永不止息、

宣播訓言、為人禁止、人不許余宣斯言者、以為凌辱其民、

彼謂先知云、勿述預言、先知雖不題此事述預言、凌辱猶不得免、或作彼眾互言先知不當題此事述預言因先知所出凌辱之言永無息止

“ Do not prophesy,” their prophets say.“ Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

“ Don’t prophesy,” the people’s prophets say.“ Don’t prophesy about bad things. Nothing shameful is going to happen to us.”

“ Do not preach”— thus they preach—“ one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

“ Quit your preaching,” they preach.“ They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us.”

‘ Do not prophesy,’ so they prophesy. But if they do not prophesy about these things, Insults will not be turned back.

“ Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy. So they shall not prophesy to you; They shall not return insult for insult.

Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.

“ Quit your preaching,” they preach.“ They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us.”

Prophesy ye not,[ say they to them that] prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them,[ that] they shall not take shame.

‘ Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly.‘ These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’

“ Don’t prophesy!” They prophesy.“ Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”

“ But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink wine, and you commanded the prophets,‘ Shut up!’

They tell the seers,“ Stop seeing visions!” They tell the prophets,“ Don’t tell us what is right. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies.

At this time Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath jearim was also prophesying for the Lord. And he predicted the same terrible disaster against the city and nation as Jeremiah did.When King Jehoiakim and the army officers and officials heard what he was saying, the king sent someone to kill him. But Uriah heard about the plan and escaped in fear to Egypt.Then King Jehoiakim sent Elnathan son of Acbor to Egypt along with several other men to capture Uriah.They took him prisoner and brought him back to King Jehoiakim. The king then killed Uriah with a sword and had him buried in an unmarked grave.

“ We gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man’s name!” he said.“ Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about him, and you want to make us responsible for his death!”

The others accepted his advice. They called in the apostles and had them flogged. Then they ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus, and they let them go.

You keep only the laws of evil King Omri; you follow only the example of wicked King Ahab! Therefore, I will make an example of you, bringing you to complete ruin. You will be treated with contempt, mocked by all who see you.”

For some of the Jews killed the prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us, too. They fail to please God and work against all humanityas they try to keep us from preaching the Good News of salvation to the Gentiles. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

“ Son of man, turn and face Jerusalem and prophesy against Israel and her sanctuaries.

But to keep them from spreading their propaganda any further, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in Jesus’ name again.”

They offer superficial treatments for my people’s mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.Are they ashamed of their disgusting actions? Not at all— they don’t even know how to blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be brought down when I punish them,” says the Lord.

Don’t bother us with your prophecies here in Bethel. This is the king’s sanctuary and the national place of worship!”

“ You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!

We no longer see your miraculous signs. All the prophets are gone, and no one can tell us when it will end.

“ Son of man, turn and face the south and speak out against it; prophesy against the brushlands of the Negev.

They offer superficial treatments for my people’s mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.Are they ashamed of these disgusting actions? Not at all— they don’t even know how to blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be brought down when I punish them, says the Lord.

“ The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign Lord,“ when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord.People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from border to border searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.Beautiful girls and strong young men will grow faint in that day, thirsting for the Lord’s word.

But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the Lord had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him.“ Kill him!” they shouted.“ What right do you have to prophesy in the Lord’s name that this Temple will be destroyed like Shiloh? What do you mean, saying that Jerusalem will be destroyed and left with no inhabitants?” And all the people threatened him as he stood in front of the Temple.

And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be speechless and unable to rebuke them, for they are rebels.