Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?
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