But now [in this time since you began to build] I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ declares the Lord of hosts.

Truly the family idols talk nonsense and the diviners discern lies, describing delusional dreams. Since their comfort is vacuous, they wander off on their own like sheep, because there is no shepherd.

"I will fortify the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. I will surely bring them back, because I care about them. They will be as if I had never cast them away. Since I am the LORD their God, I will answer them.

but he will say, "I [am] not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth."