The word
that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
02 Stand in the gate of the Lord's 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.
03 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I
will cause you to dwell in this place.
04 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The
temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The
temple of the Lord, are these.
05 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between
a man and his neighbour;
06 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:
07 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever
and ever.
08 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot
profit.
09 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 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?
11 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.
12 But go ye now unto my place which was in
Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see
what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works,
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;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is
called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the
place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as
I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have
cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed
of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people,
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither
make intercession to me: for I will not hear
thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 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.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord:
do they not provoke themselves to the confusion
of their own faces?
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20 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.
21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your
sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 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:
23 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.
24 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.
25 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:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but hardened their neck: they did
worse than their fathers.
27 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.
28 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.
29 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.
30 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.
31 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.
32 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.
33 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.
34 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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