1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
2. Speak to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
3. and say to them: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be anyone who does not observe the words of this covenant,
4. which I commanded your ancestors the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, that iron furnace, saying: Listen to my voice and do all that I command you. Then you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
5. Thus I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, the one you have today. “Amen, Lord,” I answered.