1. People of Jerusalem, run through your streets!Look around! See for yourselves!Search the market places!Can you find one personwho does what is rightand tries to be faithful to God?If you can, the Lord will forgive Jerusalem.
2. Even though you claim to worship the Lord,you do not mean what you say.
13-14. They have said that the prophets are nothing but windbags and that they have no message from the Lord. The Lord God Almighty said to me, “Jeremiah, because these people have said such things, I will make my words like a fire in your mouth. The people will be like wood, and the fire will burn them up.”