10 Then I said: “Alas, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah! Truly you have utterly deceived this people+ and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace,’+ when the sword is at our throats.”*

And my own people love it that way.+

But what will you do when the end comes?”

When there is no peace.+

16 This is what Jehovah of armies says:

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.+

They are deluding you.*

8 “‘“‘If any nation or kingdom refuses to serve King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon and refuses to put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword,+ with famine, and with pestilence,’* declares Jehovah, ‘until I have finished them off by his hand.’

9 “‘“‘Therefore, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your magicians, and your sorcerers, who are saying to you: “You will not serve the king of Babylon.” 10 For they are prophesying lies to you, so that you will be taken far away from your land and I will disperse you and you will perish.

10 All of this is because they have led my people astray by saying, “There is peace!” when there is no peace.+ When a flimsy partition wall is built, they are plastering it with whitewash.’*+

And yet they lean on Jehovah,* saying:

“Is not Jehovah with us?+

No calamity will come upon us.”+