But Jeremiahsaid,"A lie!I am not goingoverto the Chaldeans";yet he would not listento him. So IrijaharrestedJeremiahand broughthim to the officials.
Then I sent[a message] to him saying,"Suchthingsas you are sayinghave not beendone,but you are inventingthem in your own mind."
Do not deliverme over to the desireof my adversaries,For false witnesseshave risenagainst me, And such as breatheout violence.
Maliciouswitnessesriseup; They askme of things that I do not know.
"Woe[to you] whenallmenspeakwellof you, for their fathersused to treatthe false prophetsin the sameway.
and keepa goodconsciencesothat in the thing in whichyou are slandered,thosewho revileyour goodbehaviorin Christwill be put to shame.
