And Jehovah said to me, Cry out all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant and do them.
Call out with the throat; do not spare. Lift up your voice like the rams` horn! And declare to My people their transgressions, and their sins to the house of Jacob.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, your going after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O apostate Israel, a statement of Jehovah. I will not cause My face to fall on you, for I am holy, a statement of Jehovah; I will not keep anger forever.
Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah and call out there this Word, and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah all Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.
Are not these the words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous with her cities round about her, and the Negeb and the Lowland were inhabited?
And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in, and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers is giving to you.
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God has commanded me to do so, in the midst of the land where you are going in, to possess it,