1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2“Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.[ † ]Jeremiah 17:19Jeremiah 26:2 3Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.[ † ]Jeremiah 4:1Jeremiah 18:11Jeremiah 26:13
5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,[ † ]1 Kings 6:12Jeremiah 21:12Jeremiah 22:3 6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,[ † ]Deuteronomy 6:14-15Jeremiah 13:10 7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:40Jeremiah 3:18
8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.[ † ]Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 14:13-14 9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,[ † ]1 Kings 18:21Hosea 4:1-2Zephaniah 1:5Exodus 20:3Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 19:4 10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?[ † ]Ezekiel 23:39Jeremiah 7:11-14Jeremiah 32:34Jeremiah 34:15 11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the Lord.[ † ]Isaiah 56:7Matthew 21:13Mark 11:17Luke 19:46
12But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.[ † ]Joshua 18:1Judges 18:31Deuteronomy 12:111 Samuel 4:10Psalms 78:60Jeremiah 26:6 13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:15Jeremiah 11:7Proverbs 1:24Isaiah 65:12Isaiah 66:4 14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.[ † ]1 Samuel 4:10-11Psalms 78:60Jeremiah 26:6-9 15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.[ † ]2 Kings 17:23Psalms 78:67Hosea 7:13Hosea 9:13Hosea 12:1
16As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.[ † ]Exodus 32:10Deuteronomy 9:14Jeremiah 11:14Jeremiah 15:1 17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.[ † ]Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 19:13 19But am I the One they are provoking? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:16-21
20Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
21This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves![ † ]Isaiah 1:11Jeremiah 6:20Hosea 8:13Amos 5:21-22 22For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,[ † ]1 Samuel 15:22Psalms 51:16Hosea 6:6 23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.[ † ]Exodus 15:26Exodus 16:32Deuteronomy 6:3Exodus 19:5-6Leviticus 26:12Jeremiah 11:4Jeremiah 13:11
24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.[ † ]Psalms 81:11Jeremiah 11:8Deuteronomy 29:19Jeremiah 9:14Jeremiah 32:33 25From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:15Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 29:19Mark 12:1-10Luke 11:47-49 26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.[ † ]Jeremiah 11:8Nehemiah 9:17Jeremiah 16:12Matthew 23:32
27When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.[ † ]Jeremiah 1:7Jeremiah 26:2Jeremiah 37:14-15Jeremiah 43:1-4Ezekiel 2:7 28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the Lord their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.[ † ]Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 9:3 29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’[ † ]Job 1:20Isaiah 15:2Jeremiah 48:37Micah 1:16
30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the Lord. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.[ † ]2 Kings 21:42 Chronicles 33:3-5, 7Jeremiah 32:34-35Ezekiel 7:20Daniel 9:27Daniel 11:31 31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.[ † ]2 Kings 23:10Jeremiah 19:5Jeremiah 32:35Leviticus 18:212 Kings 17:17Psalms 106:38Deuteronomy 17:3
32So behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.[ † ]Jeremiah 19:62 Kings 23:10Jeremiah 19:11 33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.[ † ]Jeremiah 9:22Jeremiah 19:11Ezekiel 6:5
34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”[ † ]Isaiah 24:7-8Jeremiah 16:9Jeremiah 25:10Ezekiel 26:13Hosea 2:11Revelation 18:23Leviticus 26:33Isaiah 1:7Jeremiah 4:27