1. That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the prophet, son of Azzur, from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the Lord in the sight of the priests and all the people:
2. “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3. Within two years I will restore to this place all the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took from this place and carried away to Babylon.
4. And Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place—oracle of the Lord—for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”
5. Jeremiah the prophet answered the prophet Hananiah in the sight of the priests and all the people standing in the house of the Lord,
6. and said: Amen! thus may the Lord do! May the Lord fulfill your words that you have prophesied, by bringing back the vessels of the house of the Lord and all the exiles from Babylon to this place!
7. But now, listen to the word I am about to speak in your hearing and the hearing of all the people.
8. In the past, the prophets who came before you and me prophesied war, disaster, and pestilence against many lands and mighty kingdoms.
9. But the prophet who prophesies peace is recognized as the prophet whom the Lord has truly sent only when his word comes to pass.