⁴“All right,” I answered, “I will pray to the Lord your God, and I will tell you everything he says.”

⁵They answered, “The Lord himself will be our witness that we promise to do whatever he says,

⁶even if it isn't what we want to do. We will obey the Lord so that all will go well for us.”

⁷Ten days later, the Lord gave me an answer for

⁸Johanan, the officers, and the other people. So I called them together

⁹and told them that the Lord God of Israel had said:

Jeremiah Gives a Warning

¹⁹I told the people: