The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.<n id="1" />

Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them, &#8220;Have some wine.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Then Jeremiah told Baruch, &#8220;I am no longer allowed to go<n id="1" /> into the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

They said to him, &#8220;Please sit down and read it to us.&#8221; So Baruch sat down and read it to them.<n id="1" />

Then the officials said to Baruch, &#8220;You and Jeremiah must go and hide. You must not let anyone know where you are.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

The king did not even listen to Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah, who had urged him not to burn the scroll.<n id="1" />

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>

<p class="poetry">Babylonia<n id="1" /> will be plundered.p> <p class="poetry">Those who plunder it will take all they want,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

Jehoiachin<n id="1" /> took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king&#8217;s presence for the rest of his life.

The <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8220;Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those<n id="1" /> who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows.<n id="2" /> Do not kill innocent people<n id="3" /> in this land.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> showed me two baskets of figs sitting before his temple. This happened after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon deported Jehoiakim&#8217;s son, King Jeconiah of Judah. He deported him and the leaders of Judah, along with the craftsmen and metal workers, and took them to Babylon.<n id="1" />

But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the <sc>Lordsc> has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me.<n id="1" /> For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>. &#8220;For<n id="3" /> I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.&#8221;p>

So the officials<n id="1" /> took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern<n id="2" /> of Malkijah, one of the royal princes,<n id="3" /> that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.<n id="4" />p>

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah there at Mizpah, &#8220;Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah before anyone knows about it. Otherwise he will kill you<n id="1" /> and all the Judeans who have rallied around you will be scattered. Then what remains of Judah will disappear.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">The terror you inspire in others<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you.p> <p class="poetry">You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks;p> <p class="poetry">you may occupy the highest places in the hills.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But even if you made your home where the eagles nest,p> <p class="poetry">I would bring you down from there,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it.<n id="1" /> They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">You will not always be angry with me, will you?p> <p class="poetry">You will not be mad at me forever, will you?&#8217;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">That is what you say,p> <p class="poetry">but you continually do all the evil that you can.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;The way you have lived and the things you have done<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will bring this on you.p> <p class="poetry">This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Tell them, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">Do people not get back up when they fall down?p> <p class="poetry">Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?<n id="2" />p>