1
Yirmeyahu returned to the ruins of the House and stood before a cornerstone.
2
He addressed the stone as a witness to the service that had once filled the courts.
3
“Guard the memory of this Place until the people return from captivity.
4
Let the keys and the testimony of the House remain under the keeping appointed by Elohim.”
5
[A later transmission layer expands this speech with explicitly later theological language; HaSefarim does not allow that expansion to control the earlier narrative core.]
6
Yirmeyahu wept and entrusted the Place to the mercy of Yahuah.