Jeremiah:7

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* The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD , saying , * Stand in the gate of the LORDS 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 . * Thus saith the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel Yisra #el #, Amend your ways and your doings ma #alal #, and I will cause you to dwell in this place . * Trust ye not in lying words , saying , The temple of the LORD , The temple of the LORD , The temple of the LORD , are these . * For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings ma #alal #; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour ; * 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 : * Then will I cause you to dwell in this place , in the land that I gave to your fathers , for ever and ever . * Behold , ye trust in lying words , that cannot profit . * Will ye steal , murder , and commit adultery , and swear falsely , and burn incense unto Baal Ba #al #, and walk after other gods whom ye know not ; * 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 tow #ebah #? * 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 . * But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh , where I set my name at the first ri #shown #, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel Yisra #el #. * And now , because ye have done all these works ma #aseh #, 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 ; * Therefore will I do unto this house , which is called by my name , wherein ye trust 8802 ), and unto 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 brethren , even the whole seed of Ephraim . * Therefore pray not thou for this people , neither lift up cry nor prayer for them b @#ad #, neither make intercession to me : for I will not hear thee . * Seest thou not 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 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 . * Do they provoke me to anger ? saith the LORD : do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces ? * 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 . * Thus saith the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel Yisra #el #; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices , and eat flesh . * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 : * Yet they hearkened not unto me , nor inclined their ear , but hardened their neck : they did worse than their fathers . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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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