1This is the word that came to Jeremiah…
2“Stand in the gate of the house of…
3Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God…
4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This…
5For if you really correct your ways and…
6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and…
7then I will let you live in this…
8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words…
9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and…
10and then come and stand before Me in…
11Has this house, which bears My Name, become…
12But go now to the place in Shiloh…
13And now, because you have done all these…
14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will…
15And I will cast you out of My…
16As for you, do not pray for these…
17Do you not see what they are doing…
18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the…
19But am I the One they are provoking?…
20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says:…
21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the…
22For when I brought your fathers out of…
23but this is what I commanded them: Obey…
24Yet they did not listen or incline their…
25From the day your fathers came out of…
26Yet they would not listen to Me or…
27When you tell them all these things, they…
28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is…
29Cut off your hair and throw it away.…
30For the people of Judah have done evil…
31They have built the high places of Topheth…
32So behold, the days are coming, declares the…
33The corpses of this people will become food…
34I will remove from the cities of Judah…
