Jer 7
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The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
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Stand in the gate of YHWH`s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the
word of YHWH, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I
will cause you to dwell in this place.
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Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of YHWH, the temple of YHWH, the
temple of YHWH, are these.
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For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice
between a man and his neighbor;
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if you oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
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then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers,
from of old even for evermore.
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Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
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Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to
Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
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and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We
are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold,
I, even I, have seen it, says YHWH.
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But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at
the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
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And now, because you have done all these works, says YHWH, and I spoke to you, rising
up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not:
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therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and
to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
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And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the
whole seed of Ephraim.
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Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither
make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
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See you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to other
gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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Do they provoke me to anger? says YHWH; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the
confusion of their own faces?
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Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, mine anger and my anger shall be poured
out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and
upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices,
and eat you flesh.
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For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them
out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:
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but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God,
and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it
may be well with you.
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels
[and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
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Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I
have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
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yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they
did worse than their fathers.
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And you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not hearken to you: you
shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.
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And you shall say to them, This is the nation that has not hearkened to the voice
of YHWH their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from
their mouth.
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Cut off your hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the
bare heights; for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his anger.
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For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says YHWH: they
have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
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And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not,
neither came it into my mind.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, says YHWH, that it shall no more be called Topheth,
nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury
in Topheth, till there be no place [to bury].
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And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and
for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem,
the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.