Jeremiah 25:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³ For 23 years now, ever since the thirteenth year that Josiah^[a] was king, I have been telling you what the Lord has told me. But you have not listened.

⁴ The Lord has sent prophets to you time after time, but you refused to listen. ⁵ They told you that the Lord had said:

Change your ways! If you stop doing evil, I will let you stay forever in this land that I gave your ancestors.