&#8220;For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;so your descendants and your name will remain.

So I will destroy this temple which I have claimed as my own,<n id="1" /> this temple that you are trusting to protect you. I will destroy this place that I gave to you and your ancestors,<n id="2" /> just like I destroyed Shiloh.<n id="3" />

And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day.<n id="1" /> But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the <sc>Lord,sc><n id="2" /> as I commanded your ancestors.<n id="3" />

Now and then<n id="1" /> there would be something wrong<n id="2" /> with the pot he was molding from the clay<n id="3" /> with his hands. So he would rework<n id="4" /> the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.<n id="5" />p>

How long will they go on plotting<n id="1" /> to make my people forget who I am<n id="2" /> through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors<n id="3" /> did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.<n id="4" />

There is no reason why you and your people should die in war<n id="1" /> or from starvation or disease!<n id="2" /> That&#8217;s what the <sc>Lordsc> says will happen to any nation<n id="3" /> that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.

In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted.<n id="1" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

So Jeremiah remained confined<n id="1" /> in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem<n id="2" /> was captured.p><t /><p class="bodytext">The following events occurred when Jerusalem<n id="3" /> was captured.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;Find Jeremiah<n id="1" /> and look out for him.<n id="2" /> Do not do anything to harm him,<n id="3" /> but do with him whatever he tells you.&#8221;

Now he has brought it about. The <sc>Lordsc> has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> and did not obey him.<n id="1" />

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1514; (<i>Tavi>)p> <p class="poetry">Let all their wickedness come before you;p> <p class="poetry">afflict<n id="1" /> themp> <p class="poetry">just as you have afflicted<n id="2" /> me<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">because of all my acts of rebellion.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For my groans are many,p> <p class="poetry">and my heart is sick with sorrow.<n id="5" />p>

The appearance of the wheels and their construction<n id="1" /> was like gleaming jasper,<n id="2" /> and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.<n id="3" />

As he spoke to me,<n id="1" /> a wind<n id="2" /> came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.p>

<p class="bodytext">Next I noticed the man dressed in linen with the writing kit at his side bringing back word: &#8220;I have done just as you commanded me.&#8221;p>

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

When she lustfully exposed her nakedness,<n id="1" /> I<n id="2" /> was disgusted with her, just as I<n id="3" /> had been disgusted with her sister.

therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.