18. तब वे कहने लगे, चलो, यिर्मयाह के विरूद्ध युक्ति करें, क्योंकि न याजक से व्यवस्था, न ज्ञानी से सम्मति, न भविष्यद्वक्ता से वचन दूर होंगे। आओ, हम उसकी कोई बात पकड़कर उसको नाश कराएं और फिर उसकी किसी बात पर ध्यान न दें।
18. Then said they: come, let us imagine something against this Jeremy. Yea this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. Come (say they) let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words.