Jeremiah 7:16-28

16“As for you, 1do 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 2children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they 3pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to 4provoke Me to anger. 195Are they provoking Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves instead, to their 6own 7shame?” 20Therefore this is what the Lord 8God says: “Behold, My 9anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on human and animal life, and on the 10trees 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 11burnt offerings to your sacrifices and 12eat flesh. 22For I did not 13speak 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 14what I commanded them, saying, ‘15Obey My voice, and 16I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk 17entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may 18go well for you.’ 24Yet they 19did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they 2021went backward and not forward. 25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have 22sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily, again and again. 26Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but 23stiffened their neck; they 24did more evil than their fathers.

27“So you shall 25speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will 26not answer you. 28And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that 27did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept discipline; 2829trustworthiness has perished and has been eliminated from their mouth.