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 (the same 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:
3. From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the Lord’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
4. The Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),
5. saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.
6. Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.”
7. “Yet you have not listened to me,” says the Lord; “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.”
8. Therefore the Lord of Hosts says: “Because you have not heard my words,