7. Promote the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because your future depends on its welfare.
8. The Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, proclaims: Don’t let the prophets and diviners in your midst mislead you. Don’t pay attention to your dreams.
9. They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I didn’t send them, declares the Lord.
10. The Lord proclaims: When Babylon’s seventy years are up, I will come and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place.
11. I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the Lord; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope.
12. When you call me and come and pray to me, I will listen to you.
13. When you search for me, yes, search for me with all your heart, you will find me.
14. I will be present for you, declares the Lord, and I will end your captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have scattered you, and I will bring you home after your long exile, declares the Lord.
15. Yet you say, The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon: