Thussaith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’Shouse, and speakunto all the cities of Judah, whichcome to worship in the LORD’Shouse, all the wordsthat I commandthee to speakuntothem; diminish not a word:
If so be theywillhearken, and turnevery man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do untothembecause of the evil of theirdoings.
Now it came to pass, whenJeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speakunto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the peopletook him, saying, Thoushaltsurely die.
Why hastthouprophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, Thishouseshall be likeShiloh, and thiscityshall be desolatewithout an inhabitant? And all the peopleweregatheredagainstJeremiah in the house of the LORD.
When the princes of Judahheardthesethings, thentheycame up from the king’shouseunto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD’Shouse.
Thenspake the priests and the prophetsunto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hathprophesiedagainstthiscity, as ye haveheardwithyourears.
ThenspakeJeremiahunto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORDsent me to prophesyagainstthishouse and againstthiscity all the wordsthat ye haveheard.
Therefore now amendyourways and yourdoings, and obey the voice of the LORDyour God; and the LORDwillrepent him of the evilthat he hathpronouncedagainst you.
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shallsurelybringinnocentblooduponyourselves, and uponthiscity, and upon the inhabitantsthereof: for of a truth the LORDhathsent me unto you to speak all thesewords in yourears.
Thensaid the princes and all the peopleunto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hathspoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
Micah the Morasthiteprophesied in the days of Hezekiahking of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thussaith the LORD of hosts; Zionshall be plowedlike a field, and Jerusalemshallbecomeheaps, and the mountain of the house as the highplaces of a forest.
Did Hezekiahking of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORDrepented him of the evilwhich he had pronouncedagainstthem? Thusmight we procuregreatevilagainst our souls.
And there was also a man thatprophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesiedagainstthiscity and againstthislandaccording to all the words of Jeremiah:
And whenJehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the kingsought to put him to death: but whenUrijahheard it, he was afraid, and fled, and wentintoEgypt;
And theyfetchedforthUrijah out of Egypt, and brought him untoJehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his deadbodyinto the graves of the commonpeople.