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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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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.
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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.
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Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of
the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
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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:
(7:6) "Oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed
not innocent blood."
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to
your fathers, for ever and ever.
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Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren,
even the whole seed of Ephraim.
7:16Therefore 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.
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Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
7:18The 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.
(7:18) "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."
God is angered by children who gather wood, fathers who make fires,
and women that make bread for the "queen of heaven" (Mary?) and other gods.
(7:20) "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."
God will pour out his anger on both man and beast. Not even the trees will
be spared from his wrath. And the ground itself will burn forever.
(7:21) "Put your burnt offerings
unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh."
Eat your own goddamned burnt offerings. I am sick of them, saith the Lord.
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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
7:20Therefore 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.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings
unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
7:22For 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:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their
neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
(7:29) "The LORD hath rejected and forsaken the
generation of his wrath."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
(7:33) "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."
God will feed people to the birds and the beasts, "and none shall fray
them away."
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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.
