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Behold, I, even I, have seen <i>it,</i> declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>And now, because you have done all these things, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-17.htm" target="_top"><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" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and <i>they</i> pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Do they spite Me? declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. Is it not themselves <i>they spite,</i> to their own shame? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>, Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in <i>their own</i> counsels <i>and</i> in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending <i>them.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall say to them, This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Cut off your hair and cast <i>it</i> away,<br>         And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;<br>         For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has rejected and forsaken<br>         The generation of His wrath.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>They have built the high places 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, and it did not come into My mind. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no <i>other</i> place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten <i>them away.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/7.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_20_1874/an_earnest_warning_about_lukewarmness.htm">An Earnest Warning About Lukewarmness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I should judge that the church at Laodicea was once in a very fervent and healthy condition. Paul wrote a letter to it which did not claim inspiration, and therefore its loss does not render the Scriptures incomplete, for Paul may have written scores of other letters besides. Paul also mentions the church at Laodicea in his letter to the church at Colosse; he was, therefore, well acquainted with it, and as he does not utter a word of censure with regard to it, we may infer that the church was at <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_20_1874/an_earnest_warning_about_lukewarmness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 20: 1874</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/doddridge/the_rise_and_progress_of_religion_in_the_soul/chapter_v_the_sinner_stripped.htm">The Sinner Stripped of his Vain Pleas. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1, 2. The vanity of those pleas which sinners may secretly confide in, is so apparent that they will be ashamed at last to mention them before God.--3. Such as, that they descended from pious us parents.--4. That they had attended to the speculative part of religion.--5. That they had entertained sound notion..--6, 7. That they had expressed a zealous regard to religion, and attended the outward forms of worship with those they apprehended the purest churches.--8. That they had been free from gross <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/doddridge/the_rise_and_progress_of_religion_in_the_soul/chapter_v_the_sinner_stripped.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Philip Doddridge—</span><span class="citation2">The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/the_life_of_mr_hugh.htm">The Life of Mr. Hugh Binning. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">There being a great demand for the several books that are printed under Mr. Binning's name, it was judged proper to undertake a new and correct impression of them in one volume. This being done, the publishers were much concerned to have the life of such an useful and eminent minister of Christ written, in justice to his memory, and his great services in the work of the gospel, that it might go along with this impression. We living now at so great distance from the time wherein he made a figure in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/the_life_of_mr_hugh.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_39_the_valley_of.htm">The Valley of Hinnom. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">A great part of the valley of Kedron was called also the 'Valley of Hinnom.' Jeremiah, going forth into the valley of Hinnom, went out by the gate "Hacharsith, the Sun-gate," Jeremiah 19:2; that is, the Rabbins and others being interpreters, 'by the East-gate.' For thence was the beginning of the valley of Hinnom, which, after some space, bending itself westward, ran out along the south side of the city. There is no need to repeat those very many things, which are related of this place in the Old <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_39_the_valley_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_xi_the_knowledge_that.htm">The Knowledge that God Is, Combined with the Knowledge that He is to be Worshipped. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">John iv. 24.--"God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." There are two common notions engraven on the hearts of all men by nature,--that God is, and that he must be worshipped, and these two live and die together, they are clear, or blotted together. According as the apprehension of God is clear, and distinct, and more deeply engraven on the soul, so is this notion of man's duty of worshipping God clear and imprinted on the soul, and whenever the actions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_xi_the_knowledge_that.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_vi_the_everlasting_covenant.htm">The Everlasting Covenant of the Spirit</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"They shall be My people, and l will be their God. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me."--JER. xxxii. 38, 40. "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_vi_the_everlasting_covenant.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Two Covenants</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_a_vow_should_always.htm">Whether a Vow Should Always be About a Better Good?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that a vow need not be always about a better good. A greater good is one that pertains to supererogation. But vows are not only about matters of supererogation, but also about matters of salvation: thus in Baptism men vow to renounce the devil and his pomps, and to keep the faith, as a gloss observes on Ps. 75:12, "Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God"; and Jacob vowed (Gn. 28:21) that the Lord should be his God. Now this above all is necessary for salvation. Therefore <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_a_vow_should_always.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_iv_an_abstract_of.htm">Appendix iv. An Abstract of Jewish History from the Reign of Alexander the Great to the Accession of Herod</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The political connection of the Grecian world, and, with it, the conflict with Hellenism, may be said to have connected with the victorious progress of Alexander the Great through the then known world (333 b.c.). [6326] It was not only that his destruction of the Persian empire put an end to the easy and peaceful allegiance which Judæa had owned to it for about two centuries, but that the establishment of such a vast Hellenic empire. as was the aim of Alexander, introduced a new element into <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_iv_an_abstract_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/1_1_obedience.htm">Obedience</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments.' Deut 27: 9, 10. What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God. If then I be a Father, where is my honour?' Mal 1: 6. Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion. Obey the voice of the Lord <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/1_1_obedience.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Ten Commandments</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/roberston/sketches_of_church_history_from_ad_33_to_the_reformation/chapter_xviii_christian_worship.htm">Christian Worship,</a><br></span><span class="snippet">PART I In the early days of the Gospel, while the Christians were generally poor, and when they were obliged to meet in fear of the heathen, their worship was held in private houses and sometimes in burial-places under-ground. But after a time buildings were expressly set apart for worship. It has been mentioned that in the years of quiet, between the death of Valerian and the last persecution (A D. 261-303) these churches were built much more handsomely than before, and were furnished with gold <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/roberston/sketches_of_church_history_from_ad_33_to_the_reformation/chapter_xviii_christian_worship.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. C. Roberston—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Church History, from AD 33 to the Reformation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xii_some_general_uses.htm">Some General Uses from this Useful Truth, that Christ is the Truth. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Having thus cleared up this truth, we should come to speak of the way of believers making use of him as the truth, in several cases wherein they will stand in need of him as the truth. But ere we come to the particulars, we shall first propose some general uses of this useful point. First. This point of truth serveth to discover unto us, the woful condition of such as are strangers to Christ the truth; and oh, if it were believed! For, 1. They are not yet delivered from that dreadful plague of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xii_some_general_uses.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Brown (of Wamphray)—</span><span class="citation2">Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/7-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 7:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/7-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 7:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/jeremiah/7-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>