3 Maybe they will listen and stop their evil ways. If they will, I will change my mind about bringing on them the disaster that I am planning because of the evil they have done.
4 Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord says: You must obey me and follow my teachings that I gave you.
5 You must listen to what my servants the prophets say to you. I have sent them to you again and again, but you did not listen.
6 If you don’t obey me, I will destroy my Temple in Jerusalem as I destroyed my Holy Tent at Shiloh. When I do, people all over the world will curse Jerusalem.’ ”
7 The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the Temple of the Lord.
8 When Jeremiah finished speaking everything the Lord had commanded him to say, the priests, prophets, and all the people grabbed Jeremiah. They said, “You must die!
9 How dare you prophesy in the name of the Lord 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!” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the Temple of the Lord.