16 I have not run away from being your shepherd,nor have I desired the day of sickness. You know what came out of my lips;it was before your face.
17 Be not a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
18 Let those be put to shame who persecute me,but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed,but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster;destroy them with double destruction!
19 Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,
20 and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.
21 Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.