"The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. (3) Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. (4) Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. (5) Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever? (6) But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us."
The leading points of this first sermon is, to show the people the cause of God's judgments upon his people, by causing them to go into Babylon. Some of the Prophets, such as Hannaniah, had taught their fathers lies. And when the Lord called upon them to return, led away by the false teachers, and their own corruptions, they would not return. Now, saith the Lord, where are these prophets? They are dead. But my words live forever. See Jeremiah 28:1 throughout, a solemn Chapter.