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.

2 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘Stand in the courtyard of the house of Jehovah,+ and you must speak concerning all the cities of Judah that are coming in to bow down at the house of Jehovah all the words that I will command you to speak to them.+ Do not take away a word.+