A false promise of return

16And to the priests and to all this people I spoke, saying, “Thus says Yahweh: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the house of Yahweh are being brought back from Babylon now, quickly,’ for they are prophesying falsely to you.”

17Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a ruin?

18But if they are prophets, and if the word of Yahweh is with them, let them now plead with Yahweh of hosts that the vessels remaining in the house of Yahweh, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.