Jeremiah 7:13-34

13And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the Lord, “and I spoke to you, 1rising up early and 2speaking, but you did not hear, and I 3called you but you did not answer, 14therefore, I will do to the 4house which is called by My name, 5in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I 6did to Shiloh. 15I will 7cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the 8offspring of 9Ephraim.

16“As for you, 10do 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 11children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they 12pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to 13spite Me. 1914Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to 15their own 16shame?” 20Therefore thus says the Lord 17God, “Behold, My 18anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the 19trees 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 20burnt offerings to your sacrifices and 21eat flesh. 22For I did not 22speak 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 23what I commanded them, saying, ‘24Obey My voice, and 25I 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 26be well with you.’ 24Yet they 27did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and 2829went backward and not forward. 25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have 30sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. 26Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but 31stiffened their neck; they 32did more evil than their fathers.

27“You shall 33speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will 34not answer you. 28You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that 35did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; 3637truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.2938Cut off 39your hair and cast it away, And 40take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For the Lord has 41rejected 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 42set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 31They have 43built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to 44burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I 45did not command, and it did not come into My 46mind.

32“47Therefore, 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 48bury in Topheth 49because there is no other place. 33The 50dead 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 51cease 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 52land will become a ruin.