Jeremiah 7:13-34

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

16“As for you, 9do 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 10children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they 11pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to 12provoke Me to anger. 1913Are they provoking Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves instead, to their 14own 15shame?” 20Therefore this is what the Lord 16God says: “Behold, My 17anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on human and animal life, and on the 18trees 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 19burnt offerings to your sacrifices and 20eat flesh. 22For I did not 21speak 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 22what I commanded them, saying, ‘23Obey My voice, and 24I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk 25entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may 26go well for you.’ 24Yet they 27did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they 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, sending them daily, again and again. 26Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but 31stiffened their neck; they 32did more evil than their fathers.

27“So 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. 28And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that 35did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept discipline; 3637trustworthiness has perished and has been eliminated from their mouth.2938Cut off 39your hair and throw it away, And 40take up a song of mourning 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 42put 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 Ben-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 Ben-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 animals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. 34Then I will 51eliminate 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 52land will become a site of ruins.