Jeremiah 7

1The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

2“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:2 · Isa 1:10 · Jer 2:4 · Jer 10:1 · +26 more

3Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.Cross-references: Prov 28:13 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 55:7 · Jer 7:5 · Jer 18:11 · Jer 26:13 · +5 more

4Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’Cross-references: 1Sam 4:3 · Jer 6:14 · Jer 7:8 · Jer 28:15 · Jer 29:23 · Jer 29:31 · +5 more

5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;Cross-references: Judg 5:1 · Judg 21:12 · 1Ki 6:12 · Isa 1:19 · Isa 16:3 · Jer 4:1 · +4 more

6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,Cross-references: Ex 22:21 · Deut 6:14 · Deut 8:19 · Deut 11:28 · Deut 24:17 · Deut 27:19 · +24 more

7then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.Cross-references: Deut 4:40 · 2Chr 33:8 · Jer 3:18 · Jer 17:20 · Jer 18:7 · Jer 25:5

8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.Cross-references: Isa 28:15 · Isa 30:10 · Jer 4:10 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 7:4 · Jer 8:10 · +5 more

9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Deut 32:17 · Judg 5:8 · 1Ki 18:21 · Ps 50:16 · Isa 59:1 · +24 more

10then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?Cross-references: 2Ki 21:4 · 2Chr 33:4 · 2Chr 33:7 · Prov 7:14 · Prov 15:8 · Isa 1:10 · +16 more

11Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Chr 6:33 · Isa 56:7 · Jer 2:34 · Jer 16:16 · Jer 23:24 · Jer 29:23 · +6 more

12“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.Cross-references: Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:11 · Josh 18:1 · Judg 18:31 · 1Sam 1:3 · 1Sam 4:3 · +4 more

13Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:29 · Prov 1:24 · Isa 50:2 · Isa 65:12 · Isa 66:4 · +10 more

14therefore 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.Cross-references: Deut 12:5 · Deut 28:52 · 1Sam 4:10 · 1Ki 9:7 · 2Ki 25:9 · 2Chr 7:21 · +18 more

15I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:18 · 2Ki 17:23 · 2Ki 24:20 · 2Chr 15:9 · Ps 78:67 · Jer 3:8 · +9 more

16“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.Cross-references: Ex 32:10 · Deut 9:14 · 2Sam 8:18 · Isa 1:15 · Jer 11:14 · Jer 14:11 · +5 more

17Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?Cross-references: Jer 6:27 · Ezek 8:6 · Ezek 14:23

18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:21 · Deut 32:37 · 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 16:2 · +14 more

19Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”Cross-references: Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:21 · Ezra 9:7 · Job 35:6 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 1:24 · +8 more

20Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”Cross-references: 2Ki 22:17 · Isa 42:25 · Isa 66:24 · Jer 4:23 · Jer 9:10 · Jer 12:4 · +14 more

21Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.Cross-references: Isa 1:11 · Jer 6:20 · Hos 8:13 · Amos 5:21

22For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;Cross-references: 1Sam 15:22 · Ps 40:6 · Ps 50:8 · Ps 51:16 · Hos 6:6 · Matt 9:13 · +1 more

23but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Ex 19:5 · Lev 26:3 · Deut 4:10 · Deut 5:16 · Deut 5:29 · +14 more

24But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.Cross-references: Ex 32:7 · Deut 29:19 · Neh 9:16 · Neh 9:29 · Ps 81:11 · Ps 106:7 · +13 more

25Since the day that your fathers came 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.Cross-references: Deut 9:7 · Deut 9:21 · 1Sam 8:7 · 2Chr 36:15 · Ezra 9:7 · Neh 9:16 · +11 more

26Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:14 · 2Chr 30:8 · 2Chr 33:10 · Neh 9:16 · Neh 9:29 · Prov 29:1 · +18 more

27“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.Cross-references: Isa 6:9 · Isa 50:2 · Isa 65:12 · Jer 1:7 · Jer 1:19 · Jer 26:2 · +5 more

28You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’Cross-references: Ps 50:17 · Prov 1:7 · Isa 1:4 · Isa 59:14 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 5:1 · +9 more

29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.Cross-references: Deut 32:5 · 2Ki 17:20 · Job 1:20 · Isa 15:2 · Jer 6:30 · Jer 9:17 · +12 more

30“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:4 · 2Ki 21:7 · 2Ki 23:4 · 2Ki 23:12 · 2Chr 33:4 · 2Chr 33:7 · +7 more

31They 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 didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:1 · Deut 12:31 · Deut 17:3 · Josh 15:8 · 2Ki 17:17 · +9 more

32Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that 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 place to bury.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · 2Ki 23:10 · Jer 7:31 · Jer 19:6 · Jer 19:11 · Jer 19:13 · +1 more

33The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.Cross-references: Deut 28:26 · Ps 79:2 · Jer 8:1 · Jer 9:22 · Jer 12:9 · Jer 16:4 · +7 more

34Then I will 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 will become a waste.”Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 3:26 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 24:7 · Jer 4:27 · +7 more