1. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh:
2. “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
3. It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’
4. You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
5. to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;
6. then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
7. The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.