JER-7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim

there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of]

Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

JER-7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend

your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this

place.

JER-7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the

LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are]

these.

JER-7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if

ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

JER-7:6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and

the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither

walk after other gods to your hurt:

JER-7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the

land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

JER-7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

JER-7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear

falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods

whom ye know not;

JER-7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is

called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these

abominations?

JER-7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den

of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith

the LORD.

JER-7:12 But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh,

where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for

the wickedness of my people Israel.

JER-7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith

the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking,

but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

JER-7:14 Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called

by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to

you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

JER-7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out

all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

JER-7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift

up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for

I will not hear thee.

JER-7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and

in the streets of Jerusalem?

JER-7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the

fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the

queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods,

 that they may provoke me to anger.

JER-7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they]

not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

JER-7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger

and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and

upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit

of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

JER-7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put

your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

JER-7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them

in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,

concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

JER-7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice,

and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye

in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well

unto you.

JER-7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but

walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil

heart, and went backward, and not forward.

JER-7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the

land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my

servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them]:

JER-7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear,

but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

JER-7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;

but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto

them; but they will not answer thee.

JER-7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that

obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth

correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

JER-7:29 Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away,

and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath

rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

JER-7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight,

saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house

which is called by my name, to pollute it.

JER-7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which

[is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and

their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not,

neither came it into my heart.

JER-7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that

it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of

Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in

Tophet, till there be no place.

JER-7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the

fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none

shall fray [them] away.

JER-7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah,

and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the

voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of

the bride: for the land shall be desolate.



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