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Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying,[a] ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be in ruins, without[b] inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh.

10 When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the house of the king to the temple of Yahweh, and they sat in the entrance of the New Gate of Yahweh’s temple. 11 Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, saying,[c]This man deserves the death sentence,[d] because he has prophesied against this city as that which you have heard with your ears.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 26:9 Literally “to say”
  2. Jeremiah 26:9 Literally “from there is not”
  3. Jeremiah 26:11 Literally “to say”
  4. Jeremiah 26:11 Literally “A sentence of death is to this man”