¹⁶ As he was talking with him, ^[a]the king said to him, “Have we appointed you to be a royal counselor? Stop! Why should ^[b]you be put to death?” Then the prophet stopped and said, “I know that God has planned to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

⁴ “Do not be ^(A)like your fathers, to whom the ^(B)former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “^(C)Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did ^(D)not listen or pay attention to Me,” declares the Lord.