Jeremiah 7
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Mend Your Ways!
1The word that came to Jeremiah from Adonai, saying:
2Stand in the gate of Adonai’s house and proclaim there this word and say: “Hear the word of Adonai, all you of Judah that come through these gates to worship Adonai.
3Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
4Do not trust in deceptive words and say ‘The Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai!’
5“No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor,
6not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—
7then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
8Look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are empty.
9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and perjury, and offer incense to Baal and walk after other gods whom you have not known—
10and then come and stand before Me in this house that bears My Name, saying, ‘We are saved!’—so that you may keep doing all these abominations?
11Has this House, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, even I have seen it!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
12“Indeed, go now to My place that was in Shiloh, where I first made My Name dwell. Now see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
13While you were doing all these things,” declares Adonai, “I spoke to you early and often, but you did not listen, and I called you but you did not answer.
14Therefore I will do to the House that bears My Name—the one in which you trust, the one that I gave to you and to your fathers—as I have done to Shiloh.
15And I will cast you out of My sight, just as I cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.
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.
29Cut off your hair and throw it away and take up a lamentation on the barren hills. For Adonai has spurned and cast off the generation of His wrath.”
Valley of Slaughter
30“The children of Judah have done what is evil in My sight”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“They have set their detestable things in the House that bears My Name to defile it.
31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it even enter My mind.
32Therefore, the days are soon coming,” declares Adonai, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, nor the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury in Topheth until there is no room.
33The carcasses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.
34Then I will bring an end, from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, to the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be desolate.”
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Jeremiah 7
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False Trust in the Temple
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2“Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord # Jr 26:2 and there call out this word: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.
3“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your deeds, # Jr 4:18; 18:11; 26:13 and I will allow you to live in this place. 4Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. 5Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another, # Lit justly between a man and his neighbor # Jr 22:3 6if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow # Dt 19:10,13; 21:8-9; 2Kg 21:16; 24:4; Jr 22:3,17; 26:15; Mt 27:4 and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves, 7I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors # Gn 12:7; Jos 1:2; Jr 30:3 long ago and forever. 8But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.
9“Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known? # Ex 20:3-17; Lv 19:11-12; Dt 5:7-21; Ezk 18:5-9,14-18; 22:6-12; Hs 4:2 10Then do you come and stand before Me in this house # Jr 32:34 called by My name and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’? 11Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers # Is 56:7; Mt 21:13; Mk 11:17; Lk 19:46 in your view? Yes, I too have seen it.” # Ps 33:13-15; Ezk 8:12; Am 9:1-4
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Shiloh As a Warning
12“But return to My place that was at Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at first. # Dt 12:11; 14:23; 16:6,11 See what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel. 13Now, because you have done all these things” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and because I have spoken to you time and time again # Lit you rising early and speaking but you wouldn’t listen, # Jr 7:25; 11:7; 25:3; 26:5; 29:19; ; 32:33; 35:14,15; 44:4 and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer, # Pr 1:24; Is 65:12 14what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name # Dt 12:5; 1Kg 9:7; Mk 13:2 — the house in which you trust — the place that I gave you and your ancestors. 15I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim. # Dt 29:28; 2Kg 17
Do Not Pray for Judah
16“As for you, do not pray for these people. # Jr 11:14; 14:11-12; 15:1 Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, # Gn 23:8; Ru 1:16; Jr 27:18 for I will not listen to you. # Ex 32:11-13,20-34; Jr 14:11; 15:1 17Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, # = a pagan goddess # Jr 44:17-19,25 and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger. 19But are they really provoking Me? ” # Jb 35:6 This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ”
20Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Look, My anger — My burning wrath — is about to be poured out on this place, # Jr 42:18; Lm 4:11 on man and beast, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.” # Nah 1:6
Obedience Over Sacrifice
21This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, # Dt 12:4-28; Ps 50:13; Hs 8:13 22for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them # Hs 6:6 or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice. 23However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you. # Dt 5:33 24Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention # Ps 81:11 but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward. # Jr 15:6 25Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets # 2Kg 9:7; 17:13; Jr 26:5; 29:19; 35:15; 44:4; Ezk 38:17; Zch 1:6 to you time and time again. # Lit you, each day rising early and sending # 2Ch 36:15-16; Jr 25:4 26However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; # Lit but stiffened their neck # Ex 32:9; Dt 9:6,13; 2Kg 17:14; Jr 17:23; 19:15 they did more evil than their ancestors. # 1Kg 16:25; 2Kg 21:11
A Lament for Disobedient Judah
27“When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you. 28You must therefore declare to them: This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth # Or Faithfulness has perished — it has disappeared from their mouths. 29Cut off the hair of your sacred vow # Lit off your consecration # Nm 6:1-8 and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, # Jr 3:2,21 for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath. # Is 2:6
30“For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things # Jr 4:1; 16:18; 32:34 in the house that is called by My name and defiled it. # 2Kg 23:24 31They have built the high places of Topheth # Lit of the fireplace # 2Kg 23:10; Jr 19:6,11-14 in the Valley of Hinnom # A valley south of Jerusalem # Jos 15:8; Jr 19:5; 32:35 in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, # Lv 18:21; Dt 12:31; 2Kg 17:17,31; 2Ch 28:3; Jr 19:5; Ezk 16:21; 20:31; 23:25,37,47 a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought. # Lit command, and it did not arise on My heart
32“Therefore, take note! Days are coming” # Jr 16:14; 19:6; 23:5; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47,52 — the Lord’s declaration — “when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. # Jr 19:6 Topheth will become a cemetery, # Lit They will bury in Topheth because there will be no other burial place. 33The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away. # Dt 28:26; Ps 79:2; Jr 16:4; 19:7; 34:27; Ezk 29:5 34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, # Jr 16:9; 25:10; 33:11 for the land will become a desolate waste. # Lv 26:31,33; Is 64:11; Jr 25:9,11,18; 27:17; 44:2,6,22
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