12. When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.
13. When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,
14. I will make myself available to you,’ says the Lord. ‘Then I will reverse your plight and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’
15. “You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news for us here in Babylon.’
16. But just listen to what the Lord has to say about the king who occupies David’s throne and all your fellow countrymen who are still living in this city of Jerusalem and were not carried off into exile with you.
17. The Lord who rules over all says, ‘I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them. I will treat them like figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.