Then Jeremiah said, “False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.
Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.
having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.”