28And it was in that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur, the prophet who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of Yahweh before the eyes of the priests and all the people, saying,^a ²“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,^b ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. ³Within two years^c I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of Yahweh which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took away from this place and brought to Babylon. ⁴And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exiles^d from Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place,’ declares^e Yahweh, ‘For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”

⁵Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet before the eyes of the priests and before the eyes of all the people who were standing in the house of Yahweh, ⁶and Jeremiah the prophet said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so; may Yahweh fulfill your words that you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the house of Yahweh and all the exiles^f from Babylon to this place. ⁷Nevertheless listen please to this word that I am speaking in your hearing^g and in the hearing^h of all the people,

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to say”
bLiterally “to say”
cLiterally “In still two years days”
dHebrew “exile”
eLiterally “a declaration of”
fHebrew “exile”
gLiterally “ears”
hLiterally “ears”