7. The prophets, the priests, and everyone else in the temple heard what I said,
10. The royal officers heard what had happened, and they came from the palace to the new gate of the temple to be the judges at my trial.
11. While they listened, the priests and the prophets said to the crowd, “All of you have heard Jeremiah prophesy that Jerusalem will be destroyed. He deserves the death penalty.”
14. You must decide what to do with me. Just do whatever you think is right.
15. But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man, because everything I preached came from the Lord.
16. The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets, “Since Jeremiah only told us what the Lord our God had said, we don't think he deserves to die.”
17. Then some of the leaders from other towns stepped forward. They told the crowd that
18. years ago when Hezekiah was king of Judah, a prophet named Micah from the town of Moresheth had said:“I, the Lord All-Powerful, sayJerusalem will be ploughed underand left in ruins.Thorns will cover the mountainwhere the templenow stands.”