Jeremiah 7:16-28

16“As for you, do not pray for this people. Do not offer any supplication or petition for them, nor entreat Me, because I will not hear you.

17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire and the women knead the dough to make sacrificial cakes to the queen of heaven. Moreover, they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to provoke Me to anger.

19But am I the One they are provoking?” declares Adonai. “Are they not vexing themselves to their own shame?”

20Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “My anger and My wrath is about to be poured out on this place—on man and beast, and on the trees of the field and the fruit of the land—and it will burn and not be quenched.”

21Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat!

22For on the day that I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt I did not speak to them nor did I command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices,

23but I explicitly commanded them: ‘Obey My voice and I will be your God to you and you will be My people. Walk in all the ways that I command you that it may go well with you.’

24But they did not listen or pay attention. Instead they followed their own counsel, in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They have gone backward and not forward,

25from the day your fathers left the land of Egypt until today. Although I sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily and persistently,

26they did not listen to Me or pay attention. Rather, they stiffened their neck, doing more evil than their fathers.

27“When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

28So you will say to them, ‘This nation has not obeyed the voice of Adonai their God or received correction. Truth has perished and is cut off from their mouth.