Portions: Jeremiah 19 - 22

Jeremiah then returned from Topheth,
where the Lord had sent him to prophesy,
and stood in the court of the Lord's temple
and said to all the people,
"This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
'Listen!  I am going to bring on this city
and the villages around it
every disaster I pronounced against them,
because they were stiff-necked
and would not listen to My words.'"
(Jeremiah 19:14-15)

When the priest Pashhur son of Immer,
the chief officer in the temple of the Lord,
heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten
and put in the stocks
at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the Lord's temple.
(Jeremiah 20:1-2)

"I will punish you as your deeds deserve,"
declares the Lord.
"I will kindle a fire in your forests
that will consume everything around you."
(Jeremiah 21:14)

"Does it make you a king
to have more and more cedar?
Did not your father have food and drink?
He did what was right and just,
so all went well with him.
He defended the cause of the poor and needy,
and so all went well.
Is that not what it means to know me?"
declares the Lord.
(Jeremiah 22:15-16)