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1 The word that came to Jeremi­ah from the LORD, say­ing, 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and pro­claim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Ju­dah, that en­ter in at these gates to wor­ship the LORD. 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael, Amend your ways and your do­ings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in ly­ing words, say­ing, The tem­ple of the LORD, The tem­ple of the LORD, The tem­ple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if ye through­ly amend your ways and your do­ings; if ye through­ly ex­e­cute judg­ment be­tween a man and his neigh­bour; 6 If ye op­press not the stranger, the fa­ther­less, and the wid­ow, and shed not in­no­cent blood in this place, nei­ther walk af­ter oth­er gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fa­thers, for ever and ev­er. 8 Be­hold, ye trust in ly­ing words, that can­not prof­it. 9 Will ye steal, mur­der, and com­mit adul­tery, and swear false­ly, and burn in­cense unto Baal, and walk af­ter oth­er gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand be­fore me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are de­liv­ered to do all these abom­i­na­tions? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, be­come a den of rob­bers in your eyes? Be­hold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wicked­ness of my peo­ple Is­rael. 13 And now, be­cause ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, ris­ing up ear­ly and speak­ing, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye an­swered not; 14 There­fore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, where­in ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fa­thers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16 There­fore pray not thou for this peo­ple, nei­ther lift up cry nor prayer for them, nei­ther make in­ter­ces­sion to me: for I will not hear thee. 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Ju­dah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The chil­dren gath­er wood, and the fa­thers kin­dle the fire, and the wom­en knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heav­en, and to pour out drink of­fer­ings unto oth­er gods, that they may pro­voke me to anger. 19 Do they pro­voke me to anger? saith the LORD: ­do they not provoke them­selves to the con­fu­sion of their own faces? 20 There­fore thus saith the Lord GOD; Be­hold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Put your burnt of­fer­ings unto your sac­ri­fices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fa­thers, nor com­mand­ed them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, con­cern­ing burnt of­fer­ings or sac­ri­fices: 23 But this thing com­mand­ed I them, say­ing, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my peo­ple: and walk ye in all the ways that I have com­mand­ed you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But they hear­kened not, nor in­clined their ear, but walked in the coun­sels and in the imag­i­na­tion of their evil heart, and went back­ward, and not for­ward. 25 Since the day that your fa­thers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my ser­vants the prophets, dai­ly ris­ing up ear­ly and send­ing them: 26 Yet they hear­kened not unto me, nor in­clined their ear, but hard­ened their neck: they did worse than their fa­thers. 27 There­fore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hear­ken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not an­swer thee. 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a na­tion that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor re­ceiveth cor­rec­tion: truth is per­ished, and is cut off from their mouth. 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamen­ta­tion on high places; for the LORD hath re­ject­ed and for­sak­en the gen­er­a­tion of his wrath. 30 For the chil­dren of Ju­dah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abom­i­na­tions in the house which is called by my name, to pol­lute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the val­ley of the son of Hin­nom, to burn their sons and their daugh­ters in the fire; which I com­mand­ed them not, nei­ther came it into my heart. 32 There­fore, be­hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the val­ley of the son of Hin­nom, but the val­ley of slaugh­ter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. 33 And the car­cas­es of this peo­ple shall be meat for the fowls of the heav­en, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. 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 be des­o­late.