Jeremiah Chapter 7

• Jeremiah 7:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 7:2
  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
• Jeremiah 7:3
  “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...
• Jeremiah 7:4
  The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
• Jeremiah 7:5
  Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, are these.’
• Jeremiah 7:6
  For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
• Jeremiah 7:7
  if 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 you...
• Jeremiah 7:8
  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
• Jeremiah 7:9
  Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
• Jeremiah 7:10
  Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
• Jeremiah 7:11
  then 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?
• Jeremiah 7:12
  Has 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.
• Jeremiah 7:13
  “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 Is...
• Jeremiah 7:14
  Now, 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, ...
• Jeremiah 7:15
  therefore 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...
• Jeremiah 7:16
  I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
• Jeremiah 7:17
  “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.
• Jeremiah 7:18
  Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
• Jeremiah 7:19
  The 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...
• Jeremiah 7:20
  Do they provoke me to anger?” says the LORD. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
• Jeremiah 7:21
  Therefore 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...
• Jeremiah 7:22
  The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
• Jeremiah 7:23
  For 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;
• Jeremiah 7:24
  but 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 y...
• Jeremiah 7:25
  But 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 for...
• Jeremiah 7:26
  Since 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 ...
• Jeremiah 7:27
  Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
• Jeremiah 7:28
  “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.
• Jeremiah 7:29
  You 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...
• Jeremiah 7:30
  Cut 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 wrat...
• Jeremiah 7:31
  “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...
• Jeremiah 7:32
  They 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 d...
• Jeremiah 7:33
  Therefore 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 Sl...
• Jeremiah 7:34
  The 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.
• Jeremiah 7:35
  Then 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 b...