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

I, the Lord, affirm that I know how arrogant they are. But their pride is ill-founded. Their boastings will prove to be false.

They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’

“Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”

I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

And everyone will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you – though you are a man and not a god – when you are in the power of those who wound you?

You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

They will know that I am the Lord when I ignite a fire in Egypt and all her allies are defeated.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”