Verse 29
Jeremiah 7:29
Free Bible Version
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For the people of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have placed their offensive idols in my own Temple, making it unclean.
Original Language Text
hebrew
גָּזִּ֤י נִזְרֵ/ךְ֙ וְֽ/הַשְׁלִ֔יכִי וּ/שְׂאִ֥י עַל שְׁפָיִ֖ם קִינָ֑ה כִּ֚י מָאַ֣ס יְהוָ֔ה וַ/יִּטֹּ֖שׁ אֶת דּ֥וֹר עֶבְרָתֽ/וֹ
English Translation
Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
This is the Lord's message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
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Go and stand in the entrance to the Lord's Temple, and deliver this message: Listen to what the Lord...
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This is what the Lord Almighty, the God (Elohim) of Israel says: Change your ways and do what's righ...
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Don't believe in those who try and deceive you by repeating, “The Temple of the Lord is here, the Te...
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If you sincerely change your ways and do what's right, if you treat each other fairly,
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if you stop mistreating foreigners and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering innocent people...
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But look at you! You go on believing in these deceptions, these worthless words.
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Are you really going to continue stealing, murdering, committing adultery, and lying, burning incens...
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and then come and stand before me in my own Temple and say, “We're safe, so we can continue doing al...
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10
Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too...
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11
So why don't you go to Shiloh where I first made myself a place for me to live with you, and see wha...
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12
I've warned you time and again about all these things you've done but you've refused to listen, decl...
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So now I'm going to do to my Temple, what I did to Shiloh. This is the Temple you put your faith in,...
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I will throw you out of my presence, just as I expelled all your Israelite relatives, all the descen...
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You, Jeremiah, are not to pray for these people. Don't cry out to me in prayer for them, don't plead...
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16
Can't you see how they're behaving in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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17
The children collect the firewood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make...
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But is it really me they're hurting? declares the Lord. Aren't they really hurting themselves and br...
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19
So this is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: Watch! My furious anger will be poured out on this count...
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20
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says: You can add your burnt offerings t...
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21
When I led your forefathers out of Egypt I didn't just give them instructions about burnt offerings...
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22
This is the commandment I gave them: Obey me, and I will be your God (Elohim), and you will be my pe...
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But they refused to listen or pay attention. Instead they followed the desires of their own stubborn...
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24
From the time your forefathers left Egypt until now, I have sent you time after time my servants the...
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But you refused to listen or pay them attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious th...
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26
When you tell them all this, they won't listen to you. When you call out to them, they won't answer.
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So you have to tell them, “This is the nation that refused to listen to what the Lord their God (Elo...
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28
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, for the Lord has rej...
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29
For the people of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have placed thei...
30
They have built pagan shrines at Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could sacrifice their sons...
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So watch out! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when instead of Topheth and the Valley of Hinno...
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32
The dead bodies of these people will be food for birds of prey and wild animals, and there won't be...
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I will put a stop to the cheerful sounds of celebration and the happy voices of the bride and brideg...
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