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Look, I, even I, have seen it, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, 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="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-14.htm"><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 to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore do not pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do they provoke me to anger?" says the LORD. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Look, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but this thing I commanded them, saying, 'Listen to 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="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But they did not listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>yet they did not listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall tell them, 'This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>"For the people of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says the LORD: "they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Therefore look, the days come," says the LORD, "that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The Valley of Ben Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from 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><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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