Then it came to be, when Yehuḏ
and say, ‘Thus said the sovereign, “Put this one in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I come in peace.” ’ ”
And the sovereign of Yisra’ĕ
“While you hated instruction And cast My Words behind you?
“They did not accept my counsel, They despised all my reproof,
He who despises the Word is destroyed, But he who fears the command is rewarded.
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, But it is the counsel of יהוה that stands.
There is no wisdom or understanding Or counsel against יהוה.
One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
And shall say, “How I have hated discipline, And my heart has despised reproof!
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Yisra’ĕ
And after the sovereign had burned the scroll with the words which Baruḵ
“Take another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Yehoyaqim the sovereign of Yehuḏ
and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, Elohim shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the set-apart city, which are written in this Book.
