nkjv Jeremiah:7:17-28
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke Me to anger?" says the LORD. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?"
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place--on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched."
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:23 @ 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, that it may be well with you.'
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:24 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:25 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:26 @ Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:27 @ "Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
nkjv@Jeremiah:7:28 @ "So you shall say to them, "This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.