3 Maybe they will listen and stop their evil ways. I have plans to bring disaster on them because of the evil they have done. But if they change, I will change my mind about bringing disaster on them.
4 Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord says: I gave my teachings to you. You must obey me and follow my teachings.
5 You must listen to what my servants the prophets say to you. I have sent prophets to you again and again. But you did not listen to them.
6 If you don’t obey me, I will destroy my Temple in Jerusalem. I will destroy it as I destroyed my Holy Tent at Shiloh. People all over the world will curse Jerusalem.’”
7 The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah. He said all of these words in the Temple of the Lord.
8 Jeremiah finished speaking everything the Lord had commanded him to say. Then the priests, prophets and all the people grabbed Jeremiah. They said, “You must die!
9 How dare you prophesy such a thing in the name of the Lord! How dare you say that this Temple will be destroyed like the one at Shiloh! How dare you say that Jerusalem will become a desert without anyone to live in it!” All the people crowded around Jeremiah in the Temple of the Lord.