17. do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,’ declares the Lord.
18. The word of the Lord Almighty came to me.
19. This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.’
20. This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,
21. and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, “Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.”