1The word that came to Jeremiah from the…
2“Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house,…
3The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel…
4Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The LORD’s…
5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and…
6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless,…
7then I will cause you to dwell in…
8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t…
9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely,…
10then come and stand before me in this…
11Has this house, which is called by my…
12“But go now to my place which was…
13Now, because you have done all these works,”…
14therefore I will do to the house which…
15I will cast you out of my sight,…
16“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift…
17Don’t you see what they do in the…
18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle…
19Do they provoke me to anger?” says the…
20Therefore the Lord GOD says: “Behold, my anger…
21The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel…
22For I didn’t speak to your fathers or…
23but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen…
24But they didn’t listen or turn their ear,…
25Since the day that your fathers came out…
26Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline…
27“You shall speak all these words to them,…
28You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation…
29Cut off your hair, and throw it away,…
30“For the children of Judah have done that…
31They have built the high places of Topheth,…
32Therefore behold, the days come”, says the LORD,…
33The dead bodies of this people will be…
34Then I will cause to cease from the…
