34;
34 I will bring an end to the
sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the
towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate. (7)
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26 But
they did not listen to Me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more
evil than their ancestors.’
(8)
27 “When you tell them all this, they will not
listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.
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17 Do
you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
(8)
18 The children gather wood, the
fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer
to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse My
anger.
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8 But look, you are trusting in
deceptive words that are worthless. (8)
9 “‘Will you steal
and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other
gods you have not known,
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The Valley of
Slaughter
30 “‘The
people of Judah have done evil in My eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears
My Name and have defiled it.
(3)
31 They have built the
high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and
daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter My mind.
32 So beware, the days
are coming, declares the Lord, when people will
no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of
Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
33 Then the carcasses of this
people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be
no one to frighten them away.
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21 “‘This
is what the Lord Almighty, the God
of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices
and eat the meat yourselves!
(3)
22 For when I brought
your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them
commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
23 but I gave them this Command:
Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be My people. Walk in obedience to
all I Command you, that it may go well with you.
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12 “‘Go
now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see
what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
(3)
13 While you were doing
all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you
again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.
14 Therefore, what I did to Shiloh
I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the temple you trust in, the
place I gave to you and your ancestors.
15 I will thrust you
from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of
Ephraim.’
16 “So do not pray for
this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with Me, for
I will not listen to you.
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3 This
is what the Lord Almighty, the God
of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in
this place.
(3)
4 Do not trust in
deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord,
the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!”
5 If you really change
your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,
6 if you do not
oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent
blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,
7 then I will let you live in
this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
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28 Therefore
say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has
vanished from their lips.
(1)
29 “‘Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a
lament on the barren heights, for the Lord
has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under His wrath.
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19 But
am I the One they are provoking? declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame? (1)
20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord
says: My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast,
on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and
not be quenched.
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10 and then come and
stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable
things?
11 Has this house,
which bears My Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching!
declares the Lord.
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False Religion
Worthless
7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: (1)
2 “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s
house and there proclaim this message:
“‘Hear the word of
the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these
gates to worship the Lord.
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