Common English Bible

Jeremiah 26:2-8 Common English Bible (CEB)

2. The Lord proclaims: Stand in the temple courtyard and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who have come to the temple to worship. Tell them everything I command you; leave nothing out.

3. Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. If they do, I will relent and not carry out the harm I have in mind for them because of the wrong they have done.

4. So tell them, The Lord proclaims: If you don’t listen to me or follow the Instruction I have set before you—

5. if you don’t listen to the words of the prophets that I have sent to you time and again, though you haven’t listened,

6. then I will make this temple a ruin like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse before all nations on earth.

7. The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah declare these words in the Lord’s temple.

8. And when Jeremiah finished saying everything the Lord told him to say, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him and said, "You must die!