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Jeremiah 7
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Jeremiah Preaches in the Temple

7The LORD sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship.H1697H3414H3068H559
2He told me to stand there and announce what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them:H5975H8179H3068H1004H7121H1697H559H8085H1697H3068H3063H935H8179H7812H3068
3"Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H3190H1870H4611H7931H4725
4Stop believing those deceitful words, 'We are safe! This is the LORD's Temple, this is the LORD's Temple, this is the LORD's Temple!'H982H8267H1697H559H1964H3068H1964H3068H1964H3068
5"Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another.H3190H3190H1870H4611H6213H6213H4941H376H7453
6Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you.H6231H1616H3490H490H8210H5355H1818H4725H3212H310H312H430H7451
7If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.H7931H4725H776H5414H1H5704H5769H5769
8"Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.H982H8267H1697H3276
9You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.H1589H7523H5003H7650H8267H6999H1168H1980H310H312H430H3045
10You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, 'We are safe!'H935H5975H6440H1004H7121H8034H559H5337H6213H8441
11Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing.H1004H7121H8034H4631H6530H5869H7200H5002H3068
12Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.H3212H4725H7887H7931H8034H7223H7200H6213H6440H7451H5971H3478
13You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.H6213H4639H5002H3068H1696H7925H1696H8085H7121H6030
14And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.H6213H1004H7121H8034H982H4725H5414H1H6213H7887
15I will drive you out of my sight as I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel. I, the LORD, have spoken."H7993H6440H7993H251H2233H669

The People’s Disobedience

16The LORD said, "Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry or pray on their behalf; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.H6419H5971H5375H7440H8605H1157H6293H8085
17Don't you see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?H7200H6213H5892H3063H2351H3389
18The children gather firewood, the men build fires, and the women mix dough to bake cakes for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They also pour out offerings of wine to other gods, in order to hurt me.H1121H3950H6086H1H1197H784H802H3888H1217H6213H3561H4446H8064H5258H5262H312H430H3707
19But am I really the one they are hurting? No, they are hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves.H3707H5002H3068H1322H6440
20And so I, the Sovereign LORD, will pour out my fierce anger on this Temple. I will pour it out on people and animals alike, and even on the trees and the crops. My anger will be like a fire that no one can put out.H559H136H3069H639H2534H5413H4725H120H929H6086H7704H6529H127H1197H3518
21"My people, some sacrifices you burn completely on the altar, and some you are permitted to eat. But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H5595H5930H2077H398H1320
22I gave your ancestors no commands about burnt offerings or any other kinds of sacrifices when I brought them out of Egypt.H1696H1H6680H3117H3318H776H4714H1697H5930H2077
23But I did command them to obey me, so that I would be their God and they would be my people. And I told them to live the way I had commanded them, so that things would go well for them.H1697H6680H559H8085H6963H430H5971H1980H1870H6680H3190
24But they did not obey or pay any attention. Instead, they did whatever their stubborn and evil hearts told them to do, and they became worse instead of better.H8085H5186H241H3212H4156H8307H7451H3820H268H6440
25From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day I have kept on sending to you my servants, the prophets.H3117H1H3318H776H4714H3117H7971H5650H5030H3117H7925H7971
26Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.H8085H5186H241H7185H6203H7489H1
27"So, Jeremiah, you will speak all these words to my people, but they will not listen to you; you will call them, but they will not answer.H1696H1697H8085H7121H6030
28You will tell them that their nation does not obey me, the LORD their God, or learn from their punishment. Faithfulness is dead. No longer is it even talked about.H559H1471H8085H6963H3068H430H3947H4148H530H6H3772H6310

Sinful Deeds in Hinnom Valley

29"Mourn, people of Jerusalem; cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a funeral song on the hilltops, because I, the LORD, am angry and have rejected my people.H1494H5145H7993H5375H7015H8205H3068H3988H5203H1755H5678
30"The people of Judah have done an evil thing. They have placed their idols, which I hate, in my Temple and have defiled it.H1121H3063H6213H7451H5869H5002H3068H7760H8251H1004H7121H8034H2930
31In Hinnom Valley they have built an altar called Topheth, so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire. I did not command them to do this - it did not even enter my mind.H1129H1116H8612H1516H1121H2011H8313H1121H1323H784H6680H5927H3820
32And so, the time will come when it will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley. They will bury people there because there will be nowhere else to bury them.H3117H935H5002H3068H559H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H2028H6912H8612H369H4725
33The corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them off.H5038H5971H3978H5775H8064H929H776H2729
34The land will become a desert. In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the happy sounds of wedding feasts.H7673H5892H3063H2351H3389H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618H776H2723


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