Jeremiah 7:12-34

12“But go now to My place which was in 1Shiloh, where I 2made My name dwell at the beginning, 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, 4speaking again and again, but you did not listen, and I 5called you but you did not answer, 14therefore I will do to the 6house which is called by My name, 7in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, just as I 8did to Shiloh. 15I will 9hurl you out of My sight, just as I have hurled out all your brothers, all the 10descendants of 11Ephraim.

16“As for you, 12do not pray for this people, and do not lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not plead with Me; for I am not listening to you. 17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The 13children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they 14pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to 15provoke Me to anger. 1916Are they provoking Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves instead, to their 17own 18shame?” 20Therefore this is what the Lord 19God says: “Behold, My 20anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on human and animal life, and on the 21trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

21This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your 22burnt offerings to your sacrifices and 23eat flesh. 22For I did not 24speak to your fathers, or command them on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23But this is 25what I commanded them, saying, ‘26Obey My voice, and 27I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk 28entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may 29go well for you.’ 24Yet they 30did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they 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, sending them daily, again and again. 26Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but 34stiffened their neck; they 35did more evil than their fathers.

27“So 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. 28And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that 38did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept discipline; 3940trustworthiness has perished and has been eliminated from their mouth.2941Cut off 42your hair and throw it away, And 43take up a song of mourning 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 45put 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 Ben-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 Ben-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 animals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. 34Then I will 54eliminate from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride; for the 55land will become a site of ruins.