1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2Stand in the gate of the Lord 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord .[ † ]Jeremiah 17:19Jeremiah 26:2 3Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.[ † ]Jeremiah 4:1Jeremiah 18:11Jeremiah 26:13 4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , are these.[ † ]Jeremiah 7:8Micah 3:11 5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;[ † ]1 Kings 6:12Jeremiah 21:12Jeremiah 22:3 6if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:[ † ]Deuteronomy 6:14-15Jeremiah 13:10 7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:40Jeremiah 3:18
8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.[ † ]Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 14:13-14 9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;[ † ]1 Kings 18:21Hosea 4:1-2Zephaniah 1:5Exodus 20:3Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 19:4 10and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?[ † ]Ezekiel 23:39Jeremiah 7:11-14Jeremiah 32:34Jeremiah 34:15 11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it , saith the Lord .[ † ]Isaiah 56:7Matthew 21:13Mark 11:17Luke 19:46
12But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.[ † ]Joshua 18:1Judges 18:31Deuteronomy 12:111 Samuel 4:10Psalms 78:60Jeremiah 26:6 13And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord , and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:15Jeremiah 11:7Proverbs 1:24Isaiah 65:12Isaiah 66:4 14therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.[ † ]1 Samuel 4:10-11Psalms 78:60Jeremiah 26:6-9
15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.[ † ]2 Kings 17:23Psalms 78:67Hosea 7:13Hosea 9:13Hosea 12:1
16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.[ † ]Exodus 32:10Deuteronomy 9:14Jeremiah 11:14Jeremiah 15:1 17Seest thou not 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 their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.[ † ]Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 19:13 19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord : do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:16-21
20Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.[ † ]Isaiah 1:11Jeremiah 6:20Hosea 8:13Amos 5:21-22 22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:[ † ]1 Samuel 15:22Psalms 51:16Hosea 6:6 23but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.[ † ]Exodus 15:26Exodus 16:32Deuteronomy 6:3Exodus 19:5-6Leviticus 26:12Jeremiah 11:4Jeremiah 13:11 24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.[ † ]Psalms 81:11Jeremiah 11:8Deuteronomy 29:19Jeremiah 9:14Jeremiah 32:33 25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:15Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 29:19Mark 12:1-10Luke 11:47-49 26yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.[ † ]Jeremiah 11:8Nehemiah 9:17Jeremiah 16:12Matthew 23:32
27Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.[ † ]Jeremiah 1:7Jeremiah 26:2Jeremiah 37:14-15Jeremiah 43:1-4Ezekiel 2:7
28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.[ † ]Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 9:3
29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem , and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.[ † ]Job 1:20Isaiah 15:2Jeremiah 48:37Micah 1:16 30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord : they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.[ † ]2 Kings 21:42 Chronicles 33:3-5, 7Jeremiah 32:34-35Ezekiel 7:20Daniel 9:27Daniel 11:31 31And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.[ † ]2 Kings 23:10Jeremiah 19:5Jeremiah 32:35Leviticus 18:212 Kings 17:17Psalms 106:38Deuteronomy 17:3 32Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.[ † ]Jeremiah 19:62 Kings 23:10Jeremiah 19:11 33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.[ † ]Jeremiah 9:22Jeremiah 19:11Ezekiel 6:5 34Then will I 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 shall be desolate.[ † ]Isaiah 24:7-8Jeremiah 16:9Jeremiah 25:10Ezekiel 26:13Hosea 2:11Revelation 18:23Leviticus 26:33Isaiah 1:7Jeremiah 4:27