1. The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
2. which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3. "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
4. And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,