Jeremiah:7

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* The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah , saying , * Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah , and proclaim there this Word , and say , Hear the Word of Jehovah , all Judah , who enter in at these gates to bow down to Jehovah . * Thus 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 Jehovah , The temple of Jehovah , This is the temple of Jehovah . * For if you thoroughly make your ways and your doings good ; if you work to execute justice between a man and his neighbor ; * if you do not oppress the sojourner , 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 are of no benefit . * 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 those abominations ? * Has this house , which is called by My name , become a den of robbers in your eyes ? Behold , I , even I , have seen it , says Jehovah . * 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 because of the evil of My people Israel . * And now , because you have done all these works , says Jehovah , 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 a 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 children 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 provoke Me to anger ? says Jehovah . Is it not themselves , to the shame of their own faces . * Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah , Behold , My anger and My fury shall be poured out on this place , on man , and on beast , and on the trees of the field , and on the fruit of the ground ; and it shall burn , and shall not be quenched . * Thus says Jehovah of Hosts , the God of Israel : Snatch away your burnt offerings from 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 this is what I commanded them , 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 extend 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 them . * Yet they did not listen to Me , nor extend their ear , but hardened their neck . They did worse than their fathers . * Therefore 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 lamentation on the desolate heights . For Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath . * For the sons of Judah have done evil in My eyes , says Jehovah . They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name , in order to defile it . * 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 did not command them , nor did it even come into My heart . * Therefore behold , the days are coming , says Jehovah , 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 , until there is no more room . * And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens , and for the beasts of the earth ; and no one will frighten them away . * Then I will cause the voice of gladness to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem , and the voice of joy , the voice of the bridegroom , and the voice of the bride . For the land shall be desolate .

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