As you stand in those places<n id="1" /> announce, &#8216;Listen, all you people who pass through these gates. Listen, all you kings of Judah, all you people of Judah and all you citizens of Jerusalem. Listen to what the <sc>Lordsc> says.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Pashhur son of Immer heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. He was the priest who was chief of security<n id="1" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

Say: &#8216;Listen, O king of Judah who follows in David&#8217;s succession.<n id="1" /> You, your officials, and your subjects who pass through the gates of this palace must listen to what the <sc>Lordsc> says.<n id="2" />

But, if you do not obey these commands, I solemnly swear<n id="1" /> that this palace will become a pile of rubble. I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

This whole area<n id="1" /> will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah say these things in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

<p class="bodytext">However, some of the officials<n id="1" /> of Judah heard about what was happening<n id="2" /> and they rushed up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple from the royal palace. They set up court<n id="3" /> at the entrance of the New Gate of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> affirms,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The descendants of Israel will notp> <p class="poetry">cease forever to be a nation in my sight.p> <p class="poetry">That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lightsp> <p class="poetry">were to cease to operate before me.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Then they asked Baruch, &#8220;How did you come to write all these words? Do they actually come from Jeremiah&#8217;s mouth?&#8221;<n id="1" />

Baruch answered, &#8220;Yes, they came from his own mouth. He dictated all these words to me and I wrote them down in ink on this scroll.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity<n id="1" /> right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek<n id="2" /> me?

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel,<n id="1" /> and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, they could not save their own sons or daughters &#8211; they would save only their own lives.p>

engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die.<n id="1" /> He will bear the responsibility for his own death.<n id="2" />p>

Then he said to me, &#8220;Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: &#8216;Dry bones, hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">Then he said to me, &#8220;Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, &#8216;Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">Then he led me toward the south. I saw<n id="1" /> a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others;<n id="1" /> 87½ feet<n id="2" /> long and 43¾ feet<n id="3" /> wide.

He said to me, &#8220;These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea,<n id="1" /> where the sea is stagnant,<n id="2" /> the waters become fresh.<n id="3" />