6. Hananiah, I hope the Lord will do exactly what you said. I hope he does bring back everything the Babylonians took from the temple, and that our people who were taken to Babylonia will be allowed to return home.
7. But let me remind you and everyone else
8. that long before we were born, prophets were saying powerful kingdoms would be struck by war, disaster, and disease.
9. Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the Lord has said.
10. Hananiah grabbed the wooden yoke from my neck and smashed it.
11. Then he said, “The Lord says this is the way he will smash the power Nebuchadnezzar has over the nations, and it will happen in less than two years.”I left the temple,
12. and a little while later, the Lord told me
13-14. to go back and say to Hananiah:I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You smashed a wooden yoke, but I will replace it with one made of iron. I will put iron yokes on all the nations, and they will have to do what King Nebuchadnezzar commands. I will even let him rule the wild animals.