17 “And as for you, you should gird up your hips,+ and you must rise up and speak to them everything that I myself command you. Do not be struck with any terror because of them,+ in order that I may not strike you with terror before them.

8 So it came about that when Jeremiah had completed speaking all that Jehovah had commanded [him] to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying: “You will positively die.+

5 And they, for their part, said to Jeremiah: “May Jehovah prove to be a true and faithful witness against us+ if it is not according to every word with which Jehovah your God sends you to us that we shall exactly do.+