7The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:H1697H3414H3068H5592Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah, you that enter these gates to worship the LORD.H5975H8179H3068H1004H7121H1697H559H8085H1697H3068H3063H935H8179H7812H30683Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and let me dwell with you in this place.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H3190H1870H4611H7931H47254Do not trust in these deceptive words: "This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD."H982H8267H1697H559H1964H3068H1964H3068H1964H30685For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,H3190H3190H1870H4611H6213H6213H4941H376H74536if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,H6231H1616H3490H490H8210H5355H1818H4725H3212H310H312H430H74517then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.H7931H4725H776H5414H1H5704H5769H57698Here you are, trusting in deceptive words to no avail.H982H8267H1697H32769Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,H1589H7523H5003H7650H8267H6999H1168H1980H310H312H430H304510and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, "We are safe!"—only to go on doing all these abominations?H935H5975H6440H1004H7121H8034H559H5337H6213H844111Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the LORD.H1004H7121H8034H4631H6530H5869H7200H5002H306812Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.H3212H4725H7887H7931H8034H7223H7200H6213H6440H7451H5971H347813And now, because you have done all these things, says the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently, you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,H6213H4639H5002H3068H1696H7925H1696H8085H7121H603014therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors, just what I did to Shiloh.H6213H1004H7121H8034H982H4725H5414H1H6213H788715And I will cast you out of my sight, just as I cast out all your kinsfolk, all the offspring of Ephraim.H7993H6440H7993H251H2233H66916As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.H6419H5971H5375H7440H8605H1157H6293H808517Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?H7200H6213H5892H3063H2351H338918The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.H1121H3950H6086H1H1197H784H802H3888H1217H6213H3561H4446H8064H5258H5262H312H430H370719Is it I whom they provoke? says the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own hurt?H3707H5002H3068H1322H644020Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on human beings and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.H559H136H3069H639H2534H5413H4725H120H929H6086H7704H6529H127H1197H351821Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H5595H5930H2077H398H132022For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.H1696H1H6680H3117H3318H776H4714H1697H5930H207723But this command I gave them, "Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you."H1697H6680H559H8085H6963H430H5971H1980H1870H6680H319024Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels, and looked backward rather than forward.H8085H5186H241H3212H4156H8307H7451H3820H268H644025From the day that your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day;H3117H1H3318H776H4714H3117H7971H5650H5030H3117H7925H797126yet they did not listen to me, or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.H8085H5186H241H7185H6203H7489H127So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.H1696H1697H8085H7121H603028You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.H559H1471H8085H6963H3068H430H3947H4148H530H6H3772H631029Cut off your hair and throw it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation that provoked his wrath.H1494H5145H7993H5375H7015H8205H3068H3988H5203H1755H567830For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house that is called by my name, defiling it.H1121H3063H6213H7451H5869H5002H3068H7760H8251H1004H7121H8034H293031And they go on building the high place of Topheth, 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, nor did it come into my mind.H1129H1116H8612H1516H1121H2011H8313H1121H1323H784H6680H5927H382032Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the LORD, when 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 more room.H3117H935H5002H3068H559H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H2028H6912H8612H369H472533The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the animals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.H5038H5971H3978H5775H8064H929H776H272934And I will bring to an end the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bride and bridegroom in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for the land shall become a waste.H7673H5892H3063H2351H3389H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618H776H2723
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