⁹ And now, I pray^◦ you, implore the faces of God^◦ that He may be·​·gracious to us; while this is from your hand, will He accept^* the faces from you? says Jehovah of Armies.

¹⁸ And they said, Go, and let us think thoughts against Jeremiah^◦; for the law shall not perish from the priest, and counsel from the wise, and the word from the prophet. Go, and we will smite him with the tongue, and let us not attend to^▵ any of his words.