omit a word” (26:2). This is the message from God he was to proclaim: “If you do not listen to [me] … then I will make … this city an object of cursing among all the nations” (vv. 5, 6). God insisted that Jeremiah proclaim his message in a high traffic area of the temple, where “the priests, the prophets and all the people” (v. 7) would hear him. No one was to miss this message. The crowds did listen, but not because they believed. They listened to make sure they had all the evidence