Jeremiah 7:16-28

16“As for you, 1do 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 2children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they 3pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to 4spite Me. 195Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to 6their own 7shame?” 20Therefore thus says the Lord 8God, “Behold, My 9anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the 10trees 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 11burnt offerings to your sacrifices and 12eat flesh. 22For I did not 13speak 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 14what I commanded them, saying, ‘15Obey My voice, and 16I 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 17be well with you.’ 24Yet they 18did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and 1920went backward and not forward. 25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have 21sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. 26Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but 22stiffened their neck; they 23did more evil than their fathers.

27“You shall 24speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will 25not answer you. 28You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that 26did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; 2728truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.