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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 ESV</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" /></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="../cmenus/jeremiah/7.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="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/7-1.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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Jeremiah 7</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></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Evil in the Land</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Stand in the gate of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.’</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></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 because of the evil of my people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And now, because you have done all these things, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Is it I whom they provoke? declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Is it not themselves, to their own shame? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 and sacrifices. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;</span><br /><span class="indent">raise a lamentation on the bare heights,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has rejected and forsaken</span><br /><span class="indent">the generation of his wrath.’</span></p> <p class="heading">The Valley of Slaughter</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And 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, nor did it come into my mind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the <span class="divine-name">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, because there is no room elsewhere. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 none will frighten them away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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