Jeremiah 7
7:1The word which came to Jeremiah from the lord, saying, Stand upon the gate of the house of the lord, and read there this word! And say,
7:2Hear the word of the lord all Judea!
7:3Thus says the lord of the forces, the God of Israel, Set right your ways and your practices! and I will settle you in this place.
7:4Rely not upon yourselves with lying words, for thoroughly they will not benefit you in your saying, The temple of the lord, it is the temple of the lord.
7:5For if in setting right, you should set right your ways, and your practices, and in doing you should execute equity between a man and between his neighbor,
7:6and you should not tyrannize over the foreigner and orphan and widow; and you should not pour out innocent blood in this place; and you should not go after strange gods for your hurt;
7:7then I will settle you in your place, in the land which I gave to your fathers from the eon, and unto the eon.
7:8But since you rely upon lying words, from where you will not be benefitted;
7:9and you murder, and you commit adultery, and steal, and swear upon an oath unjustly, and burn incense to Baal, and go after strange gods whom you do not know,
7:10it is to be wickedness to you. And you came and stood before me in the house which my name is called upon in it. And you said, We have kept a distance to do all these abominations.
7:11My house is not a cave of robbers, of which my name is called upon in it there before you. And behold, I have seen, says the lord.
7:12For go unto my place! the one in Shiloh, where I encamped my name before it there prior. And see what I did to it because of the countenance of evil of my people Israel!
7:13And now, because you have done all these works, and I spoke to you, and you heard me not; and I called you, and you were not responding;
7:14I also will do to this house (of which my name is called upon in it, upon which you relied upon it, and the place which I gave to you and to your fathers,) as I did to Shiloh.
7:15And I will throw you away from my face, as I threw away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
7:16And you, do not pray for this people! and do not petition to show them mercy! and do not make a vow! and do not come forward to me concerning them! for I will not listen to you.
7:17Or do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
7:18Their sons collect together wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough to make cakes to the military of the heaven; and they offered libations to strange gods, that they should provoke me to anger.
7:19Do they not provoke me to anger, says the lord? Do they not provoke themselves that their faces should be disgraced?
7:20On account of this, thus says the lord, Behold, my anger and rage is poured upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon every tree of the field, and upon the produce of the land; and it shall be kindled and not extinguished.
7:21Thus says the lord, Gather together your whole burnt-offerings with your sacrifices, and eat meats!
7:22For I spoke not to your fathers, and I did not give charge to them in the day I led them from out of the land of Egypt concerning whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
7:23But only this saying gave I charge to them, saying, Hearken to my voice! and I will be to you for a God, and you will be to me for a people. And go in all my ways! in which ever I should give charge to you, so even it might be good to you.
7:24And they did not listen to me, and they did not take heed with their ear, but they went by the thoughts of their evil heart; and they became for the rear, and not for the front.
7:25From which day their fathers went forth from out of the land of Egypt, and until this day, even I sent to you all my servants of the prophets by day; and at dawn also I sent.
7:26And they did not listen to me, and their ear did not take heed, and they hardened their neck above their fathers.
7:27And you shall say to them this word, and they will not listen to you. And you shall call them, and they will not respond to you.
7:28And you shall say to them, This is the nation which hearkened not to the voice of the lord their God, nor received instruction. Trust failed from their mouth.
7:29Shear your head, and throw away! And take upon your lips wailing! for the lord rejected and thrust away the generation doing these things.
7:30For the sons of Judah did wicked before me, says the lord. They arranged their abominations in the house which my name is called upon it, to defile it.
7:31And they built the shrine of Tophet, which is in the ravine of the son of Hinnom, to incinerate their sons and their daughters by fire; which I did not give charge to them, and did not consider in my heart.
7:32On account of this, Behold, days come, says the lord, and they shall not say any more, Shrine of Tophet, and Ravine of the Son of Hinnom, but, The Ravine of the ones Being done away with. And they shall entomb in Tophet, on account of a place not existing.
7:33And the dead of this people will be for food to the birds of heaven, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there will not be one frightening them away.
7:34And I will depose from out of the cities of Judah, and from out of the corridors of Jerusalem the voice of ones being glad, and the voice of ones rejoicing, the voice of the groom, and the voice of the bride; for all the land will be for desolation.