14. Heal me, Lord, and I’ll be healed.Save me and I’ll be saved,for you are my heart’s desire.
15. See how they harass me:"Where’s the Lord’s word?Let it come now!"
16. Yet I didn’t urge you to bring disaster;I didn’t want the calamity to happen.You know what comes out of my mouth;it’s always before you.
17. Don’t terrorize me;you are my refuge in time of disaster.
18. Let my tormentors be disgraced, but not me;let them be terrorized, but not me.Bring on them the time of disaster,as they deserve; destroy them repeatedly.
19. The Lord proclaimed to me: Go and stand by the People’s Gate where Judah’s kings go in and out, and then by all the gates of Jerusalem,
20. and say to them: Listen to the Lord’s word, you kings of Judah, all you people of Judah, and anyone living in Jerusalem who passes through these gates.
21. The Lord says: Be on guard not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or conduct business at the gates of Jerusalem.