³¹ “Send a message to all the exiles, saying: This is what the Lord says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and made you trust a lie,^(A)

²² Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies, even though I have not caused him grief,^(A) and because you have encouraged the wicked^(B) person not to turn from his evil way to save his life,