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          DASV: Jeremiah 7    

1 The word 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 word of the LORD, all you people
of Judah, who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
3 This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says:
Improve your ways and your actions, and I will let you stay
in this place.
4 Do not trust in lying words, that claim, 'This is the
temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple
of the LORD.'
5 For if you truly improve your ways and your actions,
if you truly practice justice between each other,
6 if you do not oppress the foreigners, fatherless, and
widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and do not
follow after other gods to your own peril,
7 then I will allow you to stay in this place, in the land
that I gave to your forefathers, forever and ever.

8 Look, you trust in lying words that cannot benefit you.
9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, and swear falsely,
and burn incense to Baal, and follow after other gods
that you have not known,
10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which
is called by my name, and claim, 'We are safe;' only to
continue doing all these disgusting things?
11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den
of robbers in your eyes? Look, I myself have seen everything,"
says the LORD.

12 "Go now to my place that was in Shiloh where I first caused
my name to dwell, and discover what I did to it because of
the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 Now because you have done all these things," says the LORD,
"and I spoke to you about it repeatedly, but you did not listen;
I called you, but you did not answer,
14 therefore I will do to this house, which is called by my
name, that you trust in, the place that I gave to you and
to your forefathers, just as I did to Shiloh.
15 I will drive you out of my sight, just as I drove into exile
all your relatives, even the entire offspring of Ephraim.

16 Therefore do not pray for this people, Jeremiah, do not
lift up a cry, prayer for them, or make intercession to me,
for I will not listen to you.
17 Do you not see what they are doing 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 the dough, to make cakes to the Queen of
Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, just
so they may provoke me to anger.
19 But are they really provoking me?" says the LORD. "Are they
not really hurting themselves, to their own shame?"
20 Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: "My anger
and wrath will be poured out on this place, on human beings,
animals, trees of the field, and the fruit of the ground.
It will burn and not be extinguished."

21 This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says,
"Go right ahead and add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices,
and eat the meat.
22 For I did not speak to your forefathers, or command them in
the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt just about
burnt offerings or sacrifices.
23 This is what I commanded them, 'Obey my voice, and I will be
your God, and you will be my people; walk completely in the
way that I command you, so that it may go well with you.'
24 But they did not listen or incline their ears. Instead they
followed the stubborn counsels of their own evil hearts, and
went backward and not forward.
25 Since the day that your forefathers came out of the land of
Egypt to this day, I have sent to you my servants the prophets,
repeatedly rising early and sending them.
26 Yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ears, but
stiffened their stubborn necks even worse than their forefathers
did.
27 Tell them all these words; but they will not listen to you.
Now you will call to them, but they will not answer you.
28 Tell them, 'this is the nation that has not obeyed the voice of
the LORD their God, or accepted correction. Truth has perished;
it is banished from their mouths.
29 Cut off your hair and throw it away, take up a lamentation on
the barren hilltops, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the
generation that has provoked his wrath.
30 The people of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD.
They have set up their disgusting idols in the house that is
called by my name to defile it.
31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the
valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in
the fire; something I never commanded nor did such a thing ever
enter my mind.
32 Therefore, the days are coming, says the LORD, that it will no
more be called Topheth, or the valley of Ben Hinnom, but The
Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury their dead in Topheth
until there is no room left.
33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of
the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth, and no one will
frighten them away.
34 Then I will bring to an end the sound of joy and gladness of
brides and grooms in the cities of Judah and from the streets
of Jerusalem, for the land will become a wasteland.'"

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