4. I promise to choose leaders who will care for them like real shepherds. All my people will be there, and they will never again be frightened.
5. Some day I will appointan honest kingfrom the family of David,a king who will be wiseand rule with justice.
6. As long as he is king,Israel will have peace,and Judah will be safe.The name of this king will be“The Lord Gives Justice”.
7. A time will come when you will again worship me. But you will no longer call me the Living God who rescued Israel from Egypt.
8. Instead, you will call me the Living God who rescued you from the land in the north and from all the other countries where I had forced you to go. And you will once again live in your own land.
9. When I think of the prophets,I am shocked, and I tremblelike someone drunk,because of the Lordand his sacred words.
30-32. These unfaithful prophets claim I give them their dreams, but it isn't true. I didn't choose them to be my prophets, and yet they babble on and on, speaking in my name, while stealing words from each other. And when my people hear these liars, they are led astray instead of being helped. So I warn you that I am now the enemy of these prophets. I, the Lord, have spoken.
33. Jeremiah, when a prophet or a priest or anyone else comes to you and asks, “Does the Lord have news for us?” tell them, “You people are a nuisance to the Lord, and he will get rid of you.”
34. If any of you say, “Here is news from the Lord,” I will punish you and your families, even if you are a prophet or a priest.
35. Instead, you must ask your friends and relatives, “What answer did the Lord give?” or “What has the Lord said?”