Jeremiah Chapter 7 Back Next{7:1} The word that came to
Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
{7:2} "Stand in the
gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of
Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.
{7:3} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
{7:4} Don't trust in lying words, saying, Yahweh's temple, Yahweh's temple, Yahweh's temple, are these.
{7:5} For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
{7:6} if you don't oppress the
foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
{7:7} then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, from of old even forevermore.
{7:8} Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
{7:9} Will you steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense to
Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
{7:10} and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these
abominations?
{7:11} Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
{7:12} But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
{7:13} Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:
{7:14} therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
{7:15} I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
brothers, even the whole seed of
Ephraim.
{7:16} Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
{7:17} Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
{7:18} The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the
fire, and the women knead the
dough, to make
cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
{7:19} Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. Don't they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
{7:20} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the
field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
{7:21} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your
burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
{7:22} For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of
Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
{7:23} but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
{7:24} But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil
heart, and went backward, and not forward.
{7:25} Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
{7:26} yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
{7:27} You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.
{7:28} You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
{7:29} Cut off your
hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
{7:30} For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
{7:31} They have built the
high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.
{7:32} Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.
{7:33} The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the
birds of the sky, and for the animals of the
earth; and none shall frighten them away.
{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 become a waste.
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