The Lord spoke to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am no longer allowed to go into the Lord’s temple.

Now the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

Sometimes I think, “I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.