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But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/jeremiah/7-21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/jeremiah/7-21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/jeremiah/7-21.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/7-20.htm" title="Jeremiah 7:20">◄</a> Jeremiah 7:21 <a href="../jeremiah/7-22.htm" title="Jeremiah 7:22">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/jeremiah/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"My people, some sacrifices you burn completely on the altar, and some you are permitted to eat. But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/jeremiah/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, but I won't accept sacrifices from you. So don't even bother bringing them to me. You might as well just cook the meat for yourselves. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Heap your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices; eat up the meat!<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.</p><p class="hdg">Put.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a> To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-15</a> To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/8-13.htm">Hosea 8:13</a> They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-23</a> I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/7.htm">Judah's Idolatry Persists</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my indignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl">Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.</span><span class="reftext">22</span>For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11</a></span><br />To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/43-23.htm">Isaiah 43:23</a></span><br />Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a></span><br />To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/14-12.htm">Jeremiah 14:12</a></span><br />When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25</a></span><br />Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/8-13.htm">Hosea 8:13</a></span><br />They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/5-22.htm">Amos 5:22</a></span><br />And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm">Add</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-25.htm">Ahead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Almighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-29.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-24.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-3.htm">Food</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-12.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-25.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-18.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-8.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/30-19.htm">Add</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-39.htm">Ahead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-7.htm">Almighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-3.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Food</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-3.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-27.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: add ahead Almighty and burnt eat flesh Go God hosts is Israel LORD meat of offerings other sacrifices says the This Thus to what your yourselves<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 7:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God (Jer.) 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