False religion and its punishment
1THIS word came from the LORD to Jeremiah.
2Stand at the gate of the LORD's house and there make this proclamation: Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who come in through these gates to worship him.
3These are the words of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, that I may let you live in this place.
4You keep saying, “This place is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!” This slogan of yours is a lie; put no trust in it.
5If you amend your ways and your deeds, deal fairly with one another,
6cease to oppress the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, if you shed no innocent blood in this place and do not run after other gods to your own ruin,
7then I shall let you live in this place, in the land which long ago I gave to your forefathers for all time.
8You gain nothing by putting your trust in this lie.
9You steal, you murder, you commit adultery and perjury, you burn sacrifices to Baal, and you run after other gods whom you have not known;
10will you then come and stand before me in this house which bears my name, and say, “We are safe”? Safe, you think, to indulge in all these abominations!
11Do you regard this house which bears my name as a bandits' cave? I warn you, I myself have seen all this, says the LORD.
12Go to my shrine at Shiloh, which once I made a dwelling for my name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13Now you have done all these things, says the LORD; though I spoke to you again and again, you did not listen, and though I called, you did not respond.
14Therefore what I did to Shiloh I shall do to this house which bears my name, the house in which you put your trust, the place I gave to you and your forefathers;
15I shall fling you away out of my presence, as I did with all your kinsfolk, all Ephraim's offspring.
16Offer up no prayer for this people, Jeremiah, raise no plea or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I shall not listen to you.
17Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18Children are gathering wood, fathers lighting the fire, women kneading dough to make crescent-cakes in honour of the queen of heaven; and drink-offerings are poured out to other gods -- all to grieve me.
19But is it I, says the LORD, whom they grieve? No; it is themselves, to their own confusion.
20Therefore, says the Lord GOD, my anger and my fury will pour out on this place, on man and beast, on trees and crops, and it will burn unquenched.
21These are the words of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Add your whole-offerings to your sacrifices and eat the flesh yourselves.
22For when I brought your forefathers out of Egypt, I gave them no instructions or commands about whole-offering or sacrifice.
23What I did command them was this: Obey me, and I shall be your God and you will be my people. You must conform to all my commands, if you are to prosper.
24But they did not listen; they paid no heed, and persisted in their own plans with evil and stubborn hearts; they turned their backs and not their faces to me,
25from the day when your forefathers left Egypt until now. Again and again I sent to them all my servants the prophets;
26but instead of listening and paying heed to me, they in their stubbornness proved even more wicked than their forefathers.
27Tell them all this, but they will not listen to you; call them, but they will not respond.
28Then say to them: This is the nation who did not obey the LORD their God or accept correction. Truth has perished; it is heard no more on their lips.
29Jerusalem, cut off your hair and throw it away; raise a lament on the bare heights. For the LORD has spurned and forsaken the generation that roused his wrath.
30The people of Judah have done what is wrong in my eyes, says the LORD. They set up their loathsome idols in the house which bears my name and so defiled it;
31they have built shrines of Topheth in the valley of Ben-hinnom, at which to burn their sons and daughters. That was no command of mine; indeed it never entered my mind.
32Therefore the time is coming, says the LORD, when it will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter; for the dead will be buried in Topheth until there is no room left.
33So the corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the wild beasts, with none to scare them away.
34From the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem I shall banish all sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bridegroom and bride; for the whole land will become desert.
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