Jeremiah, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {7:2}
"Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word,
and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter in at
these gates to worship the LORD. {7:3} Thus says the LORD of Hosts,
the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause
you to dwell in this place. {7:4} Don't trust in lying words, saying,
the LORD's temple, the LORD's temple, the LORD's temple, are these.
{7:5} For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you
thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; {7:6} if
you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and
don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods
to your own hurt: {7:7} then will I cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
{7:8} Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. {7:9} 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,
{7:10} and 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? {7:11} Is this house, which is called by my name, become
a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says
the LORD. {7:12} 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. {7:13} Now, because you have done all
these works, says the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising up early and
speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't
answer: {7:14} therefore will I 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. {7:15} I will cast you out of my
sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of
Ephraim. {7:16} Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up
a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will
not hear you. {7:17} Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem? {7:18} The 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. {7:19} Do they provoke
me to anger? says the LORD. Don't they provoke themselves, to the
confusion of their own faces? {7:20} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
Behold, 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. {7:21} Thus
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to
your sacrifices, and eat meat. {7:22} For I didn't 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: {7:23} 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. {7:24} But they didn't
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.
{7:25} 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: {7:26} yet they didn't listen
to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did
worse than their fathers. {7:27} 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. {7:28} 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. {7:29} 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. {7:30} For the children 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. {7:31} 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 didn't command, nor did it come into my mind. {7:32}
Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more
be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley
of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place
to bury. {7:33} 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. {7:34} 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.
{8:1} At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones
of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of
the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; {8:2} and they shall
spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky,
which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which
they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have
worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be
for dung on the surface of the earth. {8:3} Death shall be chosen
rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family,
that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD
of Hosts. {8:4} Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD:
Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not
return? {8:5} Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
{8:6} I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man
repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone
turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
{8:7} Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the
turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their
coming; but my people don't know the LORD's law. {8:8} How do you say,
We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? But, behold, the
false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. {8:9} The wise men are
disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected
the word of the LORD; and what kind of wisdom is in them? {8:10}
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those
who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the
greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest
every one deals falsely. {8:11} They have healed the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no
peace. {8:12} Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation
they shall be cast down, says the LORD. {8:13} I will utterly consume
them, says the LORD: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the
fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given
them shall pass away from them. {8:14} Why do we sit still? Assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be
silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us
water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
{8:15} We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
healing, and behold, dismay! {8:16} The snorting of his horses is
heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the
whole land trembles; for they have come, and have devoured the land
and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein. {8:17}
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not
be charmed; and they shall bite you, says the LORD. {8:18} Oh that I
could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
{8:19} Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from
a land that is very far off: isn't the LORD in Zion? Isn't her King in
her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,
and with foreign vanities? {8:20} The harvest is past, the summer is
ended, and we are not saved. {8:21} For the hurt of the daughter of my
people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. {8:22} Is
there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't
the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
{9:1} Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people! {9:2} Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for
they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. {9:3} They
bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown
strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to
evil, and they don't know me, says the LORD. {9:4} Take heed everyone
of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother
will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
{9:5} They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the
truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary
themselves to commit iniquity. {9:6} Your habitation is in the midst
of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD. {9:7}
Therefore thus says the LORD of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? {9:8}
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably
to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
{9:9} Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD; shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? {9:10} For the
mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures
of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that
none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock;
both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
{9:11} I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I
will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. {9:12}
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the
mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land
perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
{9:13} The LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
{9:14} but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and
after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; {9:15} therefore
thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed
them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to
drink. {9:16} I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after
them, until I have consumed them. {9:17} Thus says the LORD of Hosts,
Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and
send for the skillful women, that they may come: {9:18} and let them
make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down
with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. {9:19} For a voice
of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly
confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast
down our dwellings. {9:20} Yet hear the word of the LORD, you women,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your
daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation. {9:21} For
death has come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to
cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
{9:22} Speak, Thus says the LORD, The dead bodies of men shall fall as
dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and
none shall gather them. {9:23} Thus says the LORD, Don't let the wise
man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his
might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches; {9:24} but let him
who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the
LORD. {9:25} Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish
all those who are circumcised in uncircumcision: {9:26} Egypt, and
Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that
have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness;
for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are
uncircumcised in heart.
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