Jeremiah:7:1-29

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* The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD , saying , * Stand in the gate of the LORD 's house , and declare there this word , and say , Hear the word of the LORD , all Judah , who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD . * So says Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel , Make your ways and your doings good , and I will cause you to dwell in this place . * Do not trust in lying words , saying , The temple of the LORD , The temple of the LORD , The temple of the LORD [are ] these . * For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings ; if you completely do judgment between a man and his neighbor ; * [if ] you do not oppress the stranger , the fatherless , and the widow , and do not shed innocent blood in this place , nor walk after other gods to your hurt ; * then I will cause you to dwell in this place , in the land that I gave to your fathers , forever and ever . * Behold , you trust in lying words that cannot do any good . * Will you steal , murder , and commit adultery , and swear falsely , and burn incense to Baal , and walk after other gods whom you do not know ; * and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name , and say , We are delivered to do all these abominations ? * Has this house , which is called by My name , become a den of robbers in your eyes ? Behold , I also have seen , says the LORD . * But go now to 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 . * And now , because you have done all these works , says the LORD , and I spoke to you , rising up early and speaking , but you did not hear ; and I called you , but you did not answer ; * therefore I will do to [this ] 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 have done to Shiloh . * And I will cast you out of My sight , as I have cast out all your brothers , the whole seed of Ephraim . * Therefore do not pray for this people , nor lift up cry nor prayer for them , nor make intercession to Me ; for I will not hear you . * Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ? * The sons gather wood , and the fathers kindle the fire , and the women knead dough , to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to other gods , that they may provoke Me to anger . * Do they vex Me ? says Jehovah . [Is it ] not themselves , to the shame of their own faces ? * Therefore so says the Jehovah God ; Behold , My anger and My fury 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 put out . * So says Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel : Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices , and eat flesh . * For I did not 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 . * But I commanded them this thing , saying , Obey My voice , and I will be your God , and you shall be My people ; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you , so that it may be well with you . * But they did not listen , nor bow their ear , but walked in [their own ] plans , in the stubbornness of their evil heart , and went backward and not forward . * Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets , daily rising up early and sending . * Yet they did not listen to Me , nor bow down their ear , but hardened their neck . They did worse than their fathers . * So 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 . * But you shall say to them , This [is ] a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God , nor receives instruction ; truth has perished , and is cut off from their mouth . * Cut off your hair and throw [it ] away , and take up a weeping on the high places . For the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath .

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