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The goal of feminist and postcolonial translation is to create a space for multiple voices to be heard.

—María Reimóndez²

­Jer^MT 26 = Jer^LXX 3326:1 At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah [king of Judah]^a, this word came from Yhwh: 2 Thus has Yhwh spoken: Stand in the court of the house of Yhwh and speak to all [the cities of] Judah—those who come to worship in the house of Yhwh—all the words that I command you {ms} to speak to them. Do not omit a word. 3 Perhaps they will pay heed and each will turn from their evil way, so that I might relent concerning the evil that I am planning to do to them because of their evil practices. 4 You will say [to them], Thus has Yhwh spoken: If you {mp} do not heed me, to walk according to my Torah that I have set before you, 5 to heed the words of my servants the prophets—whom I have sent to you ceaselessly,^a yet you have not heeded them—6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and [this] city I will make an execrated thing^a to all the nations of the earth.

7 The priests and the prophets^a and all the people listened to Jeremiah as he spoke these words in the house of Yhwh. 8 As Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yhwh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You should surely die! 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yhwh, ‘This house will become like Shiloh and this city will be left ravaged,^a without inhabitant’?” And all the people thronged Jeremiah in the house of Yhwh. 10 When the officials of Judah heard those words, they went up from the house of the king to the house of Yhwh, and they took their seats in the entryway of the New Gate of the house^a of Yhwh. 11 The priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “A sentence of death is appropriate for this man, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

12 But Jeremiah said to [all] the officials and all the people, “Yhwh sent me to prophesy against^a this house and against^a this city all the words that you have heard. 13 Now amend your ways and your practices, and pay heed to the voice of Yhwh [your God], so that Yhwh might relent concerning the evil that (Yhwh)^a has pronounced against you. 14 But [as for me,] ^{mark this:} I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right in your eyes. 15 Only know for certain that if you kill me, you will be bringing innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yhwh has sent me to you to speak in your hearing all these words.”

16 The officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “A sentence of death is not appropriate for this man, for in the name of Yhwh our God he has spoken to us.” 17 And some men from among the elders of the land rose and said to the entire assembly of the people, 18 “Micah the Moreshethite, who was [prophesying] in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, ‘Thus has Yhwh [of Hosts] spoken:

Zion will be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem will be reduced to heaps of rubble,

and the mountain of the House^a will be reduced to high places in the forest.’

19 Did Hezekiah [king of Judah] and all Judah in fact kill him? Did he not fear Yhwh and seek to appease Yhwh, such that Yhwh relented concerning the evil that (Yhwh) had pronounced against them? But as for us, we are about to commit ruinous^a harm at the expense of our own well-being!”

20 “[Yet] there was a man prophesying in the name of Yhwh, Uriah son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath-jearim; he prophesied [against this city and] against this land in words similar to all those of Jeremiah. 21 King Jehoiakim [and all of his warriors] and all of his officials heard his words, and [the king] sought to kill him. When Uriah heard, he [was afraid; he fled and] entered Egypt. 22 The king [Jehoiakim] sent men to Egypt[—Elnathan son of Achbor and men with him, to Egypt]. 23 They brought Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to the king [Jehoiakim]. He struck him down by the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place(s) of the common people.” 24 And indeed, the influence of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah in order to keep him from being handed over to the people for execution.