Jeremiah 7 - Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

False Trust in the Temple

7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord(A) and there call out this word: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.

3 “This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your deeds,(B) and I will allow you to live in this place. 4 Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. 5 Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,[a](C) 6 if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow(D) and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves, 7 I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors(E) long ago and forever. 8 But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

9 “Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?(F) 10 Then do you come and stand before Me in this house(G) called by My name and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’? 11 Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers(H) in your view? Yes, I too have seen it.”(I)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Shiloh As a Warning

12 “But return to My place that was at Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at first.(J) See what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel. 13 Now, because you have done all these things”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and because I have spoken to you time and time again[b] but you wouldn’t listen,(K) and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,(L) 14 what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name(M)—the house in which you trust—the place that I gave you and your ancestors. 15 I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.(N)

Do Not Pray for Judah

16 “As for you, do not pray for these people.(O) Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me,(P) for I will not listen to you.(Q) 17 Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven,[c](R) and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger. 19 But are they really provoking Me?”(S) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”

20 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Look, My anger—My burning wrath—is about to be poured out on this place,(T) on man and beast, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”(U)

Obedience Over Sacrifice

21 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,(V) 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them(W) or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice. 23 However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.(X) 24 Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention(Y) but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.(Z) 25 Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets(AA) to you time and time again.[d](AB) 26 However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate;[e](AC) they did more evil than their ancestors.(AD)

A Lament for Disobedient Judah

27 “When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you. 28 You must therefore declare to them: This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth[f] has perished—it has disappeared from their mouths. 29 Cut off the hair of your sacred vow[g](AE) and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,(AF) for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath.(AG)

30 “For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things(AH) in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.(AI) 31 They have built the high places of Topheth[h](AJ) in the Valley of Hinnom[i](AK) in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,(AL) a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.[j]

32 “Therefore, take note! Days are coming”(AM)—the Lord’s declaration—“when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.(AN) Topheth will become a cemetery,[k] because there will be no other burial place. 33 The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.(AO) 34 I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride,(AP) for the land will become a desolate waste.(AQ)

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:5 Lit justly between a man and his neighbor
  2. Jeremiah 7:13 Lit you rising early and speaking
  3. Jeremiah 7:18 = a pagan goddess
  4. Jeremiah 7:25 Lit you, each day rising early and sending
  5. Jeremiah 7:26 Lit but stiffened their neck
  6. Jeremiah 7:28 Or Faithfulness
  7. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit off your consecration
  8. Jeremiah 7:31 Lit of the fireplace
  9. Jeremiah 7:31 A valley south of Jerusalem
  10. Jeremiah 7:31 Lit command, and it did not arise on My heart
  11. Jeremiah 7:32 Lit They will bury in Topheth

Cross references

  1. 7:2 : Jr 26:2
  2. 7:3 : Jr 4:18; 18:11; 26:13
  3. 7:5 : Jr 22:3
  4. 7:6 : Dt 19:10, 13; 21:8-9; 2Kg 21:16; 24:4; Jr 22:3, 17; 26:15; Mt 27:4
  5. 7:7 : Gn 12:7; Jos 1:2; Jr 30:3
  6. 7:9 : Ex 20:3-17; Lv 19:11-12; Dt 5:7-21; Ezk 18:5-9, 14-18; 22:6-12; Hs 4:2
  7. 7:10 : Jr 32:34
  8. 7:11 : Is 56:7; Mt 21:13; Mk 11:17; Lk 19:46
  9. 7:11 : Ps 33:13-15; Ezk 8:12; Am 9:1-4
  10. 7:12 : Dt 12:11; 14:23; 16:6, 11
  11. 7:13 : Jr 7:25; 11:7; 25:3; 26:5; 29:19; ; 32:33; 35:14, 15; 44:4
  12. 7:13 : Pr 1:24; Is 65:12
  13. 7:14 : Dt 12:5; 1Kg 9:7; Mk 13:2
  14. 7:15 : Dt 29:28; 2Kg 17
  15. 7:16 : Jr 11:14; 14:11-12; 15:1
  16. 7:16 : Gn 23:8; Ru 1:16; Jr 27:18
  17. 7:16 : Ex 32:11-13, 20-34; Jr 14:11; 15:1
  18. 7:18 : Jr 44:17-19, 25
  19. 7:19 : Jb 35:6
  20. 7:20 : Jr 42:18; Lm 4:11
  21. 7:20 : Nah 1:6
  22. 7:21 : Dt 12:4-28; Ps 50:13; Hs 8:13
  23. 7:22 : Hs 6:6
  24. 7:23 : Dt 5:33
  25. 7:24 : Ps 81:11
  26. 7:24 : Jr 15:6
  27. 7:25 : 2Kg 9:7; 17:13; Jr 26:5; 29:19; 35:15; 44:4; Ezk 38:17; Zch 1:6
  28. 7:25 : 2Ch 36:15-16; Jr 25:4
  29. 7:26 : Ex 32:9; Dt 9:6, 13; 2Kg 17:14; Jr 17:23; 19:15
  30. 7:26 : 1Kg 16:25; 2Kg 21:11
  31. 7:29 : Nm 6:1-8
  32. 7:29 : Jr 3:2, 21
  33. 7:29 : Is 2:6
  34. 7:30 : Jr 4:1; 16:18; 32:34
  35. 7:30 : 2Kg 23:24
  36. 7:31 : 2Kg 23:10; Jr 19:6, 11-14
  37. 7:31 : Jos 15:8; Jr 19:5; 32:35
  38. 7:31 : Lv 18:21; Dt 12:31; 2Kg 17:17, 31; 2Ch 28:3; Jr 19:5; Ezk 16:21; 20:31; 23:25, 37, 47
  39. 7:32 : Jr 16:14; 19:6; 23:5; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47, 52
  40. 7:32 : Jr 19:6
  41. 7:33 : Dt 28:26; Ps 79:2; Jr 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezk 29:5
  42. 7:34 : Jr 16:9; 25:10; 33:11
  43. 7:34 : Lv 26:31, 33; Is 64:11; Jr 25:9, 11, 18; 27:17; 44:2, 6, 22

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