12 Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk in my ways and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, for ye shall seek me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, said the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the Gentiles and from all the places where I have driven you, said the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
15 But ye have said, The Lord has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
16 know that thus hath the Lord said of the king that sits upon the throne of David and of all the people that dwell in this city and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
17 thus hath the Lord of the hosts said: Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence and will make them like the evil figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over as a reproach to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a curse, and as an astonishment, and a hissing, and an affront, unto all the Gentiles where I have driven them: