²“Thus says Yahweh: ‘Stand in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and you must speak to all the cities of Judah that come to bow in worship in the house of Yahweh all the words that I command you to speak to them. You must not omit a word. ³Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I am planning to do to them because of their evil deeds. ⁴And you shall say to them, “Thus says Yahweh: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set^b before you,^c ⁵to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, over and over again,^d though you have not listened, ⁶then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.’ ” ’ ”

⁷And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of Yahweh. ⁸And then^e as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying,^f “You will die!

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Footnotes

bOr “given”
cLiterally “to the face of you”
dLiterally “and doing early and sending”
eLiterally “And it happened”
fLiterally “to say”