Verse 16
Jeremiah 7:16
World English Bible
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“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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אַתָּ֞ה אַל תִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל בְּעַד הָ/עָ֣ם הַ/זֶּ֗ה וְ/אַל תִּשָּׂ֧א בַעֲדָ֛/ם רִנָּ֥ה וּ/תְפִלָּ֖ה וְ/אַל תִּפְגַּע בִּ֑/י כִּי אֵינֶ֥/נִּי שֹׁמֵ֖עַ אֹתָֽ/ךְ
English Translation
And you, do not pray for this people, and do not raise cry and prayer for them, and do not plead with me, for I am not hearing you.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
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2
“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, al...
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3
Yahweh of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will caus...
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4
Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
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5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a m...
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if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in...
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7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old e...
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8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
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9
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other g...
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10
then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;...
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11
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself h...
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12
“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see w...
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13
Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and s...
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14
therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place wh...
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15
I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of E...
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16
“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession t...
17
Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make ca...
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19
Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their...
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20
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place...
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21
Yahweh of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and...
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22
For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of...
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but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God (Elohim), and y...
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But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness o...
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25
Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my...
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26
Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than th...
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27
“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to th...
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28
You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God (Elohim)’s voice,...
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29
Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has...
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30
“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set th...
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31
They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn the...
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32
Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The val...
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33
The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the ear...
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Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of...
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