1“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,
2Even their children remember their altars
3My mountain in the field,
4You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you.
5The LORD says:
6For he will be like a bush in the desert,
7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
8For he will be as a tree planted by the waters,
9The heart is deceitful above all things
10“I, the LORD, search the mind.
11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid,
12A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,
13LORD, the hope of Israel,
14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed.
15Behold, they ask me,
16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you.
17Don’t be a terror to me.
18Let them be disappointed who persecute me,
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, 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.
24It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says the LORD, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
25then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.
26They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD’s house.
27But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”