And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.
So all the princes came to Jeremias and asked him: and he spoke to them according to all the words that the king had commanded him. And they left him: for nothing had been heard.