Jeremiah 26:2–8

²the Lord said to me, “Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not leave out anything. ³Perhaps the people will listen and give up their evil ways. If they do, then I will change my mind about the destruction I plan to bring on them for all their wicked deeds.”

⁴The Lord told me to say to the people, “I, the Lord, have said that you must obey me by following the teaching that I gave you, ⁵and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said. ^6*If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh,^f and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.”

⁷The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard me saying these things in the Temple, ⁸and as soon as I had finished all that the Lord had commanded me to speak, they seized me and shouted, “You ought to be killed for this!