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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/6.htm" title="Jeremiah 6">◄</a> Jeremiah 7 <a href="../jeremiah/8.htm" title="Jeremiah 8">►</a></div></td></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="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jeremiah Proclaims God’s Judgment on the Nation</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The word that came to Jeremiah from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Stand in the gate of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, all you people of Judah, you that enter these gates to worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and let me dwell with you<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-23009a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> in this place. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-23010b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> the temple of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Here you are, trusting in deceptive words to no avail. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are safe!”—only to go on doing all these abominations? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>And now, because you have done all these things, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and when I spoke to you persistently, you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors, just what I did to Shiloh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>And I will cast you out of my sight, just as I cast out all your kinsfolk, all the offspring of Ephraim.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The People’s Disobedience</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Is it I whom they provoke? says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. Is it not themselves, to their own hurt? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on human beings and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels, and looked backward rather than forward. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>From the day that your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>yet they did not listen to me, or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Cut off your hair and throw it away;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">raise a lamentation on the bare heights,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-23035c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has rejected and forsaken</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the generation that provoked his wrath.</span></span></p></div> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; they have set their abominations in the house that is called by my name, defiling it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>And they go on building the high place<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-23037d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth until there is no more room. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the animals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>And I will bring to an end the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bride and bridegroom in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for the land shall become a waste.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 7:3">Jeremiah 7:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>and I will let you dwell</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 7:4">Jeremiah 7:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>They are</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 7:29">Jeremiah 7:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the trails</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 7:31">Jeremiah 7:31</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Tg: Heb <i>high places</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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