Jer 7 | NASB1995 | STEP | The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying ,

‏ Jeremiah 7

Message at the Temple Gate

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 ^a“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 by these gates to worship the Lord!’” 3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ^b“Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. 4 ^c“Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘ ^{▼▼ Lit They are}This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’ 5 “For ^eif you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly ^fpractice justice between a man and his neighbor, 6 if you do not oppress the alien, the ^{▼▼ Or fatherless
,} ^horphan, or the widow, and do not shed ⁱinnocent blood in this place, nor ^jwalk after other gods to your own ruin, 7 then I will let you ^kdwell in this place, in the ^lland that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

8 “Behold, you are trusting in ^mdeceptive words to no avail. 9 “Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and ^{▼▼ Or burn incense
,} ^ooffer sacrifices to Baal and walk after ^pother gods that you have not known, 10 then ^qcome and stand before Me in ^rthis house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? 11 “Has ^sthis house, which is called by My name, become a ^tden of robbers in your sight? Behold, ^uI, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord.

12 “But go now to My place which was in ^vShiloh, where I ^wmade My name dwell at the first, and ^xsee what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13 “And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the Lord, “and I spoke to you, ^yrising up early and ^zspeaking, but you did not hear, and I ^aacalled you but you did not answer, 14 therefore, I will do to the ^abhouse which is called by My name, ^acin which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I ^addid to Shiloh. 15 “I will ^aecast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the ^{▼▼ Lit seed}offspring of ^agEphraim.

16 “As for you, ^ahdo not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. 17 “Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 “The ^{▼▼ Lit sons}children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they ^ajpour out drink offerings to other gods in order to ^akspite Me. 19 ^al“Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to ^{▼▼ Lit their faces’}their own ^anshame?” 20 Therefore thus says the Lord ^{▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord}God, “Behold, My ^apanger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the ^aqtrees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your ^arburnt offerings to your sacrifices and ^aseat flesh. 22 “For I did not ^atspeak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 “But this is ^{▼▼ Lit the word which}what I commanded them, saying, ‘ ^avObey My voice, and ^awI will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may ^axbe well with you.’ 24 “Yet they ^aydid not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and ^{▼▼ Lit they were
,} ^bawent backward and not forward. 25 “Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have ^bbsent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. 26 “Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but ^bcstiffened their neck; they ^bddid more evil than their fathers.

27 “You shall ^bespeak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will ^bfnot answer you. 28 “You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that ^bgdid not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; ^{▼▼ Lit faithfulness
,} ^bitruth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth. 29 ‘ ^bjCut off ^{▼▼ Lit your crown}your hair and cast it away,
And ^bltake up a lamentation on the bare heights;
For the Lord has ^bmrejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

30 “For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have ^bnset their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 31 “They have ^bobuilt the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to ^bpburn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I ^bqdid not command, and it did not come into My ^{▼▼ Lit heart}mind.

32 ^bs“Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will ^btbury in Topheth ^{▼▼ Or until there is no place left}because there is no other place. 33 “The ^bvdead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. 34 “Then I will make to ^bwcease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the ^bxland will become a ruin.