11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the Lord, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
14 I will be found by you,” says the Lord, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
15 Because you have said, “the Lord has raised us up prophets in Babylon;”
16 the Lord says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity;
17 the Lord of Hosts says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.