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The temple of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>! The temple of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>!”<a id="ren30007004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007004-b">b</a> <span id="v30007005" class="ver">5</span>Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor; <span id="v30007006" class="ver">6</span>if you no longer oppress the alien,<a id="rfn30007006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30007006-1">*</a> the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow after other gods to your own harm,<a id="ren30007006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007006-c">c</a> <span id="v30007007" class="ver">7</span>only then will I let you continue to dwell in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors long ago and forever.<a id="ren30007007-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007007-d">d</a></p> <p><span id="v30007008" class="ver">8</span>But look at you! You put your trust in deceptive words to your own loss! <span id="v30007009" class="ver">9</span>Do you think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal, follow other gods that you do not know,<a id="ren30007009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007009-e">e</a> <span id="v30007010" class="ver">10</span>and then come and stand in my presence in this house, which bears my name, and say: “We are safe! We can commit all these abominations again!”?<a id="ren30007010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007010-f">f</a> <span id="v30007011" class="ver">11</span>Has this house which bears my name become in your eyes a den of thieves? I have seen it for myself!—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren30007011-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007011-g">g</a> <span id="v30007012" class="ver">12</span>Go to my place at Shiloh,<a id="rfn30007012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30007012-1">*</a> where I made my name dwell in the beginning. See what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.<a id="ren30007012-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007012-h">h</a> <span id="v30007013" class="ver">13</span>And now, because you have committed all these deeds—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—because you did not listen, though I spoke to you untiringly, and because you did not answer, though I called you, <span id="v30007014" class="ver">14</span>I will do to this house, which bears my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your ancestors, exactly what I did to Shiloh.<a id="ren30007014-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007014-i">i</a> <span id="v30007015" class="ver">15</span>I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away all your kindred, all the offspring of Ephraim.<a id="ren30007015-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007015-j">j</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Abuses in Worship.</span> <span id="v30007016" class="ver">16</span>You, now, must not intercede for this people! Do not raise a cry or prayer in their behalf!<a id="ren30007016-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007016-k">k</a> Do not press me, for I will not listen to you! <span id="v30007017" class="ver">17</span>Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem? <span id="v30007018" class="ver">18</span>The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven,<a id="rfn30007018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30007018-1">*</a> while libations are poured out to other gods—all to offend me!<a id="ren30007018-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007018-l">l</a> <span id="v30007019" class="ver">19</span>Are they really offending me—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?<a id="ren30007019-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007019-m">m</a> <span id="v30007020" class="ver">20</span>Therefore, thus says the Lord <span class="tetr">God</span>: my anger and my wrath will pour out upon this place, upon human being and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruits of the earth; it will burn and not be quenched.<a id="ren30007020-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007020-n">n</a></p> <p><span id="v30007021" class="ver">21</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: Heap your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices; eat up the meat! <span id="v30007022" class="ver">22</span>In speaking to your ancestors on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I gave them no command<a id="rfn30007022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30007022-1">*</a> concerning burnt offering or sacrifice. <span id="v30007023" class="ver">23</span>This rather is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk exactly in the way I command you, so that you may prosper.<a id="ren30007023-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007023-o">o</a></p> <p><span id="v30007024" class="ver">24</span>But they did not listen to me, nor did they pay attention. They walked in the stubbornness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.<a id="ren30007024-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007024-p">p</a> <span id="v30007025" class="ver">25</span>From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.<a id="ren30007025-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007025-q">q</a> <span id="v30007026" class="ver">26</span>Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.<a id="ren30007026-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007026-r">r</a> <span id="v30007027" class="ver">27</span>When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you either. When you call to them, they will not answer you. <span id="v30007028" class="ver">28</span>Say to them: This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech.</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v30007029" class="ver">29</span><a id="ren30007029-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007029-s">s</a> Cut off your hair<a id="rfn30007029-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30007029-1">*</a> and throw it away!</p> <p class="sl1">on the heights raise a lament;</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has indeed rejected and cast off</p> <p class="sl1l">the generation that draws down his wrath.</p> </div> <p><span id="v30007030" class="ver">30</span>The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. They have set up their detestable things in the house which bears my name, thereby defiling it.<a id="ren30007030-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007030-t">t</a> <span id="v30007031" class="ver">31</span>In the Valley of Ben-hinnom<a id="rfn30007031-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30007031-1">*</a> they go on building the high places of Topheth to sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire, something I never commanded or considered. <span id="v30007032" class="ver">32</span>Be assured! Days are coming—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—when they will no longer say “Topheth” or “Valley of Ben-hinnom” but “Valley of Slaughter.” For want of space, Topheth will become burial ground.<a id="ren30007032-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007032-u">u</a> <span id="v30007033" class="ver">33</span>The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.<a id="ren30007033-v" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007033-v">v</a> <span id="v30007034" class="ver">34</span>I will silence the cry of joy, the cry of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will be turned to rubble.<a id="ren30007034-w" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30007034-w">w</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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