Jeremiah 7:12-34

12“But go now to My place which was in 1Shiloh, where I 2made My name dwell at the first, and 3see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the Lord, “and I spoke to you, 4rising up early and 5speaking, but you did not hear, and I 6called you but you did not answer, 14therefore, I will do to the 7house which is called by My name, 8in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I 9did to Shiloh. 15I will 10cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the 11offspring of 12Ephraim.

16“As for you, 13do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. 17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The 14children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they 15pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to 16spite Me. 1917Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to 18their own 19shame?” 20Therefore thus says the Lord 20God, “Behold, My 21anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the 22trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

21Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your 23burnt offerings to your sacrifices and 24eat flesh. 22For I did not 25speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23But this is 26what I commanded them, saying, ‘27Obey My voice, and 28I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may 29be well with you.’ 24Yet they 30did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and 3132went backward and not forward. 25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have 33sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. 26Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but 34stiffened their neck; they 35did more evil than their fathers.

27“You shall 36speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will 37not answer you. 28You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that 38did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; 3940truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.2941Cut off 42your hair and cast it away, And 43take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For the Lord has 44rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.’ 30For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have 45set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 31They have 46built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to 47burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I 48did not command, and it did not come into My 49mind.

32“50Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will 51bury in Topheth 52because there is no other place. 33The 53dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. 34Then I will make to 54cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the 55land will become a ruin.