Then Jeremiah said, That is not true; I am not going to the Chaldaeans. But he would not give ear to him: so Irijah made him prisoner and took him to the rulers.
Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.
Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.