3 And within two years, I will bring back to Jerusalem everything that he took from my temple and carried off to Babylonia.
4 King Jehoiachin and the other people who were taken from Judah to Babylonia will be allowed to come back here as well. All this will happen because I will smash the power of the king of Babylonia!
5 The priests and the others were still standing there, so I said:
6 Hananiah, I hope the Lord will do exactly what you said. I hope he does bring back everything the Babylonians took from the temple, and that our people who were taken to Babylonia will be allowed to return home.
7 But let me remind you and everyone else
8 that long before we were born, prophets were saying powerful kingdoms would be struck by war, disaster, and disease.
9 Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the Lord has said.