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1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of Jehovah 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.
3 Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, are these.
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
6 If you don't oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, through the Age of the Age.
8 you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you 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 these disgusting things?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I have seen it, says Jehovah.
12 But go you now to 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 you have done all these works, says Jehovah, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do to this 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 have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
17 Do you not see 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 to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? Says Jehovah: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; my 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 says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spoke not to 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 you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well to you.
24 But they did not listen, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil mind, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27 Therefore 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.
28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off your hair, Oh Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says Jehovah: they have set their detestable things in the House which is called by My Name, to defile 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 didn't command them [to do], neither did it come into My Mind.
32 Therefore, the days come, says Jehovah, 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, until there is no place.
33 And the carcass 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.