And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.
Azarias the son of Osaias and Johanan the son of Caree and all the proud men made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie. The Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt to dwell there.
And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: For they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.