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1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD , saying ,
2“Stand in the gate of the LORD ’s house , and proclaim this word there , and say , ‘Hear the LORD ’s word , all you of Judah , who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD .’”
3The LORD of Armies , the God of Israel says , “Amend your ways and your doings , and I will cause you to dwell in this place .
4Don’t trust in lying words , saying , ‘The LORD ’s temple , the LORD ’s temple , the LORD ’s temple , are these .’
5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings , if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour ;
6if you don’t oppress the foreigner , the fatherless , and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place , and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt ,
7then I will cause you to dwell in this place , in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more .
8Behold , you trust in lying words that can’t profit .
9Will you steal , murder , commit adultery , swear falsely , burn incense to Baal , and walk after other gods that you have not known ,
10then come and stand before me in this house , which is called by my name , and say, ‘We are delivered ,’ that you may do all these abominations ?
11Has this house , which is called by my name , become a den of robbers in your eyes ? Behold , I myself have seen it ,” says the LORD .
12“But go now to 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 .
13Now , because you have done all these works ,” says the LORD , “and I spoke to you , rising up early and speaking , but you didn’t hear ; and I called you , but you didn’t answer ;
14therefore I will do to the 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 did to Shiloh .
15I will cast you out of my sight , as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.[#7:15 or, seed]
16“Therefore don’t pray for this people . Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me ; for I will not hear you .
17Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ?
18The children gather wood , and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough , to make cakes to the queen of the sky , and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger .
19Do they provoke me to anger ?” says the LORD . “Don’t they provoke themselves , to the confusion of their own faces ?”
20Therefore the Lord GOD says : “Behold , my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place , on man , on animal, on the trees of the field , and on the fruit of the ground ; and it will burn and will not be quenched .”
21The LORD of Armies , the God of Israel says : “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat .
22For I didn’t 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 ;
23but this thing I commanded them , saying , ‘Listen to my voice , and I will be your God , and you shall be my people . Walk in all the way that I command you , that it may be well with you .’
24But they didn’t listen or turn their ear , but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart , and went backward, and not forward .
25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day , I have sent to you all my servants the prophets , daily rising up early and sending them .
26Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear , but made their neck stiff . They did worse than their fathers.
27“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 .
28You shall tell them , ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the LORD their God ’s voice , nor received instruction . Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth .’
29Cut off your hair , and throw it away , and take up a lamentation on the bare heights ; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath .
30“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight ,” says the LORD . “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name , to defile it .
31They 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 didn’t command , nor did it come into my mind .
32Therefore behold , the days come ”, says the LORD , “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth ’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom ’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter ’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury .
33The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky , and for the animals of the earth . No one will frighten them away .
34Then I will 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 will become a waste .”