NITHYAM SONGSJeremiah 7
World English Bible (WEB) • 34 verses
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2“Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.’”
3The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
RelatedJeremiah 18:11 · Jeremiah 26:13 · Proverbs 28:13 · Isaiah 1:16-19 · Isaiah 55:7 · Ezekiel 18:30-31
4Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, are these.’
5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
RelatedIsaiah 1:19 · Jeremiah 7:3 · 1 Kings 6:12-13 · Jeremiah 4:1-2 · Ezekiel 18:17 · Jeremiah 22:3
6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
RelatedExodus 22:21-24 · Deuteronomy 8:19 · Zechariah 7:9-12 · Jeremiah 13:10 · Deuteronomy 11:28 · Deuteronomy 6:14-15
7then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
RelatedDeuteronomy 4:40 · Jeremiah 25:5 · Jeremiah 18:7-8 · Jeremiah 3:18 · 2 Chronicles 33:8 · Jeremiah 17:20-27
8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
RelatedIsaiah 28:15 · Jeremiah 14:13-14 · Jeremiah 23:14-16 · Jeremiah 8:10 · Ezekiel 13:6-16 · Isaiah 30:10
9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
10then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?
RelatedJeremiah 32:34 · Ezekiel 23:37 · Ezekiel 23:39 · Jeremiah 7:11 · Jeremiah 7:14 · Jeremiah 34:15
11Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says the LORD.
12“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Related1 Samuel 4:10-11 · Jeremiah 26:6 · Joshua 18:1 · Psalms 78:60-64 · Judges 18:31 · 1 Samuel 4:22
13Now, because you have done all these works,” says the LORD, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;
RelatedIsaiah 65:12 · 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 · Proverbs 1:24 · Jeremiah 7:25 · Hosea 11:2 · Zechariah 7:13
14therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
RelatedPsalms 78:60 · 2 Kings 25:9 · Jeremiah 7:4 · Deuteronomy 28:52 · Jeremiah 7:10 · Ezekiel 24:21
15I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
RelatedJeremiah 15:1 · Jeremiah 52:3 · Hosea 13:16 · Hosea 9:16-17 · 2 Kings 17:23 · Psalms 78:67-68
16“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.
RelatedJeremiah 11:14 · Jeremiah 14:11-12 · Isaiah 1:15 · Jeremiah 15:1 · Ezekiel 14:14-20 · Exodus 32:10
17Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
RelatedJeremiah 19:13 · Jeremiah 44:17-19 · 1 Kings 14:9 · 1 Corinthians 10:22 · Deuteronomy 4:19 · Deuteronomy 32:37-38
19Do they provoke me to anger?” says the LORD. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
RelatedJeremiah 2:19 · Jeremiah 20:11 · 1 Corinthians 10:22 · Jeremiah 9:19 · Ezekiel 8:17-18 · Job 35:6
20Therefore the Lord GOD says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”
RelatedJeremiah 42:18 · Isaiah 42:25 · Lamentations 2:3-5 · Jeremiah 17:27 · Ezekiel 22:22 · Lamentations 4:11
21The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
22For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
23but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
RelatedExodus 15:26 · Deuteronomy 5:33 · Exodus 19:5-6 · Jeremiah 42:6 · Hebrews 5:9 · Deuteronomy 6:3
24But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
RelatedPsalms 81:11-12 · Deuteronomy 29:19 · Jeremiah 8:5 · Jeremiah 7:26 · Jeremiah 32:33 · Ezekiel 20:13
25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
RelatedJeremiah 25:4 · 2 Chronicles 36:15 · Nehemiah 9:26 · Matthew 21:34-36 · Jeremiah 7:13 · Luke 20:10-12
26Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
RelatedJeremiah 16:12 · 2 Chronicles 30:8 · Matthew 23:32 · Jeremiah 19:15 · Jeremiah 17:23 · Jeremiah 7:24
27“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
28You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the LORD their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
RelatedIsaiah 59:14-15 · Zephaniah 3:2 · Isaiah 1:4-5 · Jeremiah 32:33 · Proverbs 1:7 · Jeremiah 6:8
29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says the LORD. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
RelatedEzekiel 7:20 · Jeremiah 32:34 · Daniel 9:27 · 2 Kings 21:4 · 2 Kings 21:7 · 2 Chronicles 33:7
31They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
Related2 Kings 23:10 · Leviticus 18:21 · 2 Kings 17:17 · Jeremiah 32:35 · Leviticus 20:1-5 · Deuteronomy 12:31
32Therefore behold, the days come”, says the LORD, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
RelatedJeremiah 19:11 · Jeremiah 19:6 · 2 Kings 23:10 · Jeremiah 7:31 · Leviticus 26:30 · Jeremiah 19:13
33The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.
RelatedJeremiah 12:9 · Deuteronomy 28:26 · Revelation 19:17-18 · Jeremiah 8:1-2 · Jeremiah 25:33 · Jeremiah 9:22
34Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”
RelatedRevelation 18:23 · Ezekiel 26:13 · Hosea 2:11 · Isaiah 24:7-8 · Jeremiah 25:10 · Leviticus 26:33
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