But it shall come to pass, that if you will not listen to Me and sanctify the Sabbath day, to bear no burdens, nor go in [with them by] the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.

But if you should turn away, and forsake My ordinances and My commandments, which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;

And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they attached themselves to other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; and therefore He has brought upon them all this evil.

but if you be not willing, nor hearken to Me, a sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and on My account have not spared your beloved son,

Say to them, [As] I live, says the Lord, surely as you spoke into My ears, so will I do to you.

you shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out My hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

For I will lift up My hand to heaven, and swear by My right hand, and I will say, I live forever.

I will make My weapons drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh[, it shall gorge itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.

So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.

For the Lord has sworn by Himself, saying, Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all who inhabit it.

The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not everyone who dwells in it mourn? Whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, except to those who disobeyed?

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

Thus God, wanting to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, guaranteed it by an oath,

And now, because you have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but you hearkened not to Me; and I called you, but you answered not.

Therefore I also will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make [this] city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,

[This translation omits this verse.]

Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.