14 I will be present for you, declares the Lord, and I will end your captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have scattered you, and I will bring you home after your long exile, declares the Lord.
15 Yet you say, The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon:
16 This is what the Lord proclaims concerning the king sitting on David’s throne and all the people who live in this city, that is, those among you who didn’t go into exile:
17 The Lord of heavenly forces proclaims: I’m going to send the sword, famine, and disease against them. I will make them like rotten figs that are too spoiled to eat.
18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine, and disease; and I will make them an object of horror to all nations on earth and an object of cursing, scorn, shock, and disgrace among all the countries where I have scattered them,
19 because they wouldn’t listen to my words, declares the Lord, which I sent them time and again through my servants the prophets. They wouldn’t listen, declares the Lord.
20 But now, all you exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to the Lord’s word.