² “Get a scroll. Write on it all the words I have spoken to you about Israel and Judah and all the nations. Write everything from when I first spoke to you, when Josiah was king, until now [^Chis prophecies began in the thirteenth year of this king, 626 bc; 1:1–3].

³ Maybe the ·family [^Lhouse] of Judah will hear what ·disasters [evil; troubles] I am planning to ·bring on [^Ldo to] them and will ·stop doing wicked things [^Lturn back from his evil ways/paths]. Then I would forgive them for ·the sins and the evil things they have done [^Ltheir iniquities and their sins].”