The Book of Jeremiah
7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 7:2Stand in the gate of
Jehovah's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of
Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah. 7:3Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and
I will cause you to dwell in this place. 7:4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The
temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these. 7:5For
if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute
justice between a man and his neighbor; 7:6if ye oppress not the sojourner, the
fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk
after other gods to your own hurt: 7:7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in
the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore. 7:8Behold, ye
trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 7:9Will ye steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods
that ye have not known, 7:10and come and stand before me in this house, which is
called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these
abominations? 7:11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah. 7:12But go ye
now unto 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. 7:13And now,
because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising
up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:
7:14therefore will I do unto the 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 did to Shiloh.
7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the
whole seed of Ephraim. 7:16Therefore 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.
7:17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem? 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead the 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. 7:19Do they
provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the
confusion of their own faces? 7:20Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold,
mine anger and my wrath 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. 7:21Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. 7:22For 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: 7:23but this thing
I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and
ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may
be well with you. 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in
their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward. 7:25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the
land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them: 7:26yet they hearkened not unto me, nor
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
7:27And 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. 7:28And thou
shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of
Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from
their mouth. 7:29Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the
generation of his wrath. 7:30For the children of Judah have done that which is evil
in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is
called by my name, to defile it. 7:31And 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 commanded not, neither came it into my mind. 7:32Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, 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, till there be no place to bury. 7:33And the dead bodies of this people
shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none
shall frighten them away. 7:34Then 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.