⁵ Then the people said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and ·loyal [faithful] witness against us if we don’t do everything the Lord your God sends you to tell us. ⁶ ·It does not matter if we like the message or not [^LWhether good or bad…]. We will ·obey [listen to] the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you. We will ·obey [listen to] what he says so good things will happen to us.”

⁷ Ten days later the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah.