3. Perhaps they will listen and turn from their evil ways. Then I will change my mind about the disaster I am ready to pour out on them because of their sins.
4. “Say to them, ‘This is what the lord says: If you will not listen to me and obey my word I have given you,
5. and if you will not listen to my servants, the prophets—for I sent them again and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them—
6. then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.’”
7. The priests, the prophets, and all the people listened to Jeremiah as he spoke in front of the lord’s Temple.
8. But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the lord had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. “Kill him!” they shouted.