Give your daughters to husbands,
To beget sons and daughters,[498]
And increase[499] and do not diminish.
And seek ye the peace of the land,[500] 7
To the which I have banished you,
And pray for it unto the Lord,
For in her peace your peace shall be.
8. [For thus saith the Lord, Let not the prophets in your midst deceive you, nor your diviners, nor hearken to the dreams they (?) dream. 9. For falsehood are they prophesying unto you in My Name; I have not sent them.][501] 10. For thus saith the Lord, So soon as seventy years be fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and establish My Word toward you by bringing you[502] back to this place.
For I am thinking about you— 11
Rede of the Lord—