Jeremiah 26:2-3

26:2 The Lord said, “Go stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. ¹  Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the Lord’s temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word! 26:3 Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. ²  If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them ³  as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing. ⁴ 

¹ sn It is generally agreed that the incident recorded in this chapter relates to the temple message that Jeremiah gave in 7:1-15. The message there is summarized here in vv. 3-6. The primary interest here is in the response to that message.

² tn Heb “will turn from his wicked way.”

³ tn For the idiom and translation of terms involved here see 18:8 and the translator’s note there.

⁴ tn Heb “because of the wickedness of their deeds.”