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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 7 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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Behold, I Myself have seen it,” says the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh [in Ephraim], where I first set My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And now, because you have done all these things,” says the LORD, “and I spoke [persistently] to you, even rising up early and speaking, but you did not listen, and I called you but you did not answer, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>therefore, I will do to this house (the temple) which is called by My Name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, just as I did to Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers (relatives through Jacob), all the descendants of Ephraim. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Therefore, do not pray for this people [of Judah] or lift up a cry or entreaty for them or make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods that they may offend <i>and</i> provoke Me to anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do they offend <i>and</i> provoke Me to anger?” says the LORD. “Is it not themselves [they offend], to their own shame?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and [the fire will] not be quenched.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But this thing I did command them: ‘Listen to <i>and</i> obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, so that it may be well with you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But they did not obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but followed the counsels and the stubbornness of their [own] evil heart (mind), and [they turned and] went backward instead of forward. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have [persistently] sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily, early [and late]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet they did not listen to Me <i>and</i> obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but stiffened their neck; they did more evil <i>and</i> behaved worse than their fathers. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall [also] call to them, but they will not answer you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction <i>and</i> warning; truth <i>and</i> faithfulness have perished and have completely vanished from their mouths. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>‘Cut off your hair [your crown, O Jerusalem] and throw it away, <t><p class="indent1">And take up a mournful cry on the barren heights, <t><p class="indent1">For the LORD has rejected and abandoned <t><p class="indent1">The generation of His wrath.’ <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the LORD; “they have set their disgusting <i>and</i> shamefully vile things in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben-hinnom (son of Hinnom), to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire [to honor Molech, the fire god]--which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart (mind). <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, for [in bloody warfare] they will bury [the dead] in Topheth until there is no more room. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth and no one will frighten them away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then I will cause the voices of joy and gladness, and the voices of the bridegroom and the bride to vanish from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will become a ruin--a wasteland.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> The “Name” of God is equivalent to His gracious presence in passages such as this one. The place where God puts His Name is the place where He chooses to dwell.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> A goddess of fertility, probably the Babylonian title for Ishtar. She is identified with the planet Venus. 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