¹⁰ Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.

² Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;

¹¹ Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, until they be consumed.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?

²⁵ Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.

² Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

⁴ and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

²³ It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

²⁴ They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

¹³ "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'