6. Get married and have children, then help your sons find wives and help your daughters find husbands, so they can have children as well. I want your numbers to grow, not to get smaller.
7. Pray for peace in Babylonia and work hard to make it prosperous. The more successful that nation is, the better off you will be.
10. After Babylonia has been the strongest nation for seventy years, I will be kind and bring you back to Jerusalem, just as I have promised.
11. I will bless you with a future filled with hope—a future of success, not of suffering.
12. You will turn back to me and ask for help, and I will answer your prayers.
13. You will worship me with all your heart, and I will be with you
14. and accept your worship. Then I will gather you from all the nations where I scattered you, and you will return to Jerusalem.
15. You feel secure, because you think I have sent prophets to speak for me in Babylonia.
20. I had you taken from Jerusalem to Babylonia. But you had better listen to me now.
26. After the death of Jehoiada the priest, the Lord chose you to be the priest in charge of the temple security force. You know that anyone who acts mad and pretends to be a prophet should be arrested and put in chains and iron collars.