¹⁶ Now it happened that as he was talking with him, ^[a]the king said to him, “Have we given you to be a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped and said, “I know that God has counseled to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

⁵ And they said to Jeremiah, “May ^(A)Yahweh be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole ^[a]message with which Yahweh your God will send you to us. ⁶ Whether it is good or bad, we will ^(B)listen to the voice of Yahweh our God to whom we are sending you, so that good ^(C)may come to us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God.”

⁵ But ^(A)they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their evil, so as not to burn incense to other gods.