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This week's verses are Jeremiah 17:19-22 : The Lord told me, “Go and stand in the People’s Gate through which the kings of Judah enter and leave the city. Then go and stand in all the other gates of the city of Jerusalem. And then announce to them, ‘Listen to the Lord ’s message, you kings of Judah, and everyone from Judah, and all you citizens of Jerusalem, those who pass through these gates. The Lord says, Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the Lord , as I commanded your ancestors. These verses come after Jeremiah pleaded with God to defend him and vindicate him. He asks God for relief from persecution and suffering and for the people to be afflicted finally for all the things God said he would punish them with. And God's response is to tell him to go do ...