The word which came to Jeremia from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the daughter of Josiah, queen of Judah, saying,

Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

Then I took Jaazaniah the daughter of Jeremia, the daughter of Habazziniah, and her sisters, and all her daughters, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the daughters of Hanan the daughter of Igdaliah, the woman of God, which was by the chamber of the princesses, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the daughter of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

I set before the daughters of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.

But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the daughter of Rechab, our mother, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your daughters, forever:

neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the daughter of Rechab, our mother, in all that she charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our husbands, our daughters, or our sons;

nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our mother commanded us.

But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar queen of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.

Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremia, saying,

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the women of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh.

The words of Jonadab the daughter of Rechab, that she commanded her daughters, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their mother's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you now every woman from her evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your mothers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

Because the daughters of Jonadab the daughter of Rechab have performed the commandment of their mother which she commanded them, but this people has not listened to me;

therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.

Jeremia said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your mother, and kept all her precepts, and done according to all that she commanded you;

therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the daughter of Rechab shall not want a woman to stand before me forever.