19 Yahweh told me this:

Go and stand in at gate of the people where Yehudah’s kings come and go,

then in all the other gates of Yerushalem.

20 Tell the people:

Listen to Yahweh’s message, you kings of Yehudah and all you people of Yehudah,

and all of Yerushalem’s residents who go in through those gates.

21 Yahweh says this:

Be careful for the sake of your lives

and on the rest day, don’t carry a load to bring it to Yerushalem’s gates.[ref]

22 Don’t bring a load out from your homes on the rest day.

Don’t do any work, but set apart the rest day,

just as I instructed your ancestors to do.

23 They did not listen or pay attention,

but stubbornly refused to listen to me, nor did they accept discipline.

24 Yahweh declares that if you carefully listen to me

and don’t bring a load to this city’s gates on the rest day

but instead set apart the rest day for Yahweh, and don’t do any work on it,

25 then kings, princes, and those who sit on David’s throne

will come to this city’s gates in chariots and on horses.

They’ll come along with their leaders from Yehudah including Yerushalem’s residents,

and this city will be inhabited forever.

26 They’ll come from Yehudah’s cities including from all around Yerushalem,

from the Benyamin region and the foothills,

from the mountains, and from the Negev desert,

bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense,

as well as those who bring thank offerings to Yahweh’s residence.

27 But if you don’t listen to me

and don’t set apart the rest day

and don’t carry heavy loads to enter Yerushalem’s gates on the rest day,

then I’ll light a fire at its gates that will incinerate Yerushalem’s fortresses,

and that won’t be able to be put out.