12. Then I said, “The Lord sent me to proclaim everything that you heard me say against this Temple and against this city.
13. You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and must obey the Lord your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.
14. As for me, I am in your power! Do with me whatever you think is fair and right.
15. But be sure of this: if you kill me, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man, because it is the Lord who sent me to give you this warning.”
16. Then the leaders and the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man spoke to us in the name of the Lord our God; he should not be put to death.”
17. After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had assembled,
18. “When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the Lord Almighty had said,‘Zion will be ploughed like a field,Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins,and the Temple hill will become a forest.’
19. King Hezekiah and the people of Judah did not put Micah to death. Instead, Hezekiah honoured the Lord and tried to win his favour. And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he said he would bring on them. Now we are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves.”
20. (There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the Lord against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.