“‘Therefore
You must not listen
To your prophets,
To your diviners,
To your dreamers,
To your soothsayers,
To your sorcerers.
If they are saying to you.
‘You shall not serve
The king of Babylon.’
They are prophesying
A lie to you.
The result will be
That you will be removed
Far from your land.
I will drive you out.
You will perish. But any nation
That will bring its neck
Under the yoke
Of the king of Babylon,
Thus serve him,
I will leave on its own land.
They will till it.
They will live there.’
Says Yahweh.”
Jeremiah has an oracle of Yahweh about the false prophets who are telling the people not to obey the king of Babylon. Whether it is a prophet, a diviner, a dreamer, a soothsayer, or a sorcerer, who tell them not to serve the king of Babylon, they are prophesying lies. If they listened to these liars, Yahweh was going to drive them out of their land, so that they would perish. However, if any country was to put on the yoke of Babylon and serve its king, Yahweh was going to let them stay on their own land, live there, and till the soil. There is no doubt that Yahweh was on the side of the King of Babylon, as presented here.
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