16. As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you.I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know.That which came out of my lips was before your face.
17. Don’t be a terror to me.You are my refuge in the day of evil.
18. Let them be disappointed who persecute me,but let not me be disappointed.Let them be dismayed,but don’t let me be dismayed.Bring on them the day of evil,and destroy them with double destruction.
19. the Lord said this to me: “Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
20. Tell them, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21. the Lord says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22. Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.