Jeremiah

¹⁷Don’t be a terror to me.You are my refuge in the day of evil. ¹⁸Let them be disappointed who persecute me,but let not me be disappointed.Let them be dismayed,but don’t let me be dismayed.Bring on them the day of evil,and destroy them with double destruction. ¹⁹the Lord said this to me: “Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. ²⁰Tell them, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: ²¹the Lord says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. ²²Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. ²³But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.