Jeremiah 7 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Message at the Temple Gate

7 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 “(A)Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the Lord!’” 3 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “(B)Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place. 4 (C)Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘[a]This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’ 5 For (D)if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly (E)practice justice between a person and his neighbor, 6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the [b](F)orphan, or the widow, and do not shed (G)innocent blood in this place, nor (H)follow other gods to your own ruin, 7 then I will let you (I)live in this place, in the (J)land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

8 “Behold, you are trusting in (K)deceptive words to no avail. 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, [c](L)offer sacrifices to Baal, and follow (M)other gods that you have not known, 10 then (N)come and stand before Me in (O)this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are saved!’—so that you may do all these abominations? 11 Has (P)this house, which is called by My name, become a (Q)den of robbers in your sight? Behold, (R)I Myself have seen it,” declares the Lord.

12 “But go now to My place which was in (S)Shiloh, where I (T)made My name dwell at the beginning, and (U)see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13 And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the Lord, “and I spoke to you, (V)speaking again and again, but you did not listen, and I (W)called you but you did not answer, 14 therefore I will do to the (X)house which is called by My name, (Y)in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, just as I (Z)did to Shiloh. 15 I will (AA)hurl you out of My sight, just as I have hurled out all your brothers, all the [d]descendants of (AB)Ephraim.

16 “As for you, (AC)do not pray for this people, and do not lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not plead with Me; for I am not listening to you. 17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The [e]children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they (AD)pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to (AE)provoke Me to anger. 19 (AF)Are they provoking Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves instead, to their [f]own (AG)shame?” 20 Therefore this is what the Lord [g]God says: “Behold, My (AH)anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on human and animal life, and on the (AI)trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

21 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your (AJ)burnt offerings to your sacrifices and (AK)eat flesh. 22 For I did not (AL)speak to your fathers, or command them on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this is [h]what I commanded them, saying, ‘(AM)Obey My voice, and (AN)I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk [i]entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may (AO)go well for you.’ 24 Yet they (AP)did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they [j](AQ)went backward and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have (AR)sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily, again and again. 26 Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but (AS)stiffened their neck; they (AT)did more evil than their fathers.

27 “So you shall (AU)speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will (AV)not answer you. 28 And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that (AW)did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept discipline; [k](AX)trustworthiness has perished and has been eliminated from their mouth.

29 (AY)Cut off [l]your hair and throw it away,
And (AZ)take up a song of mourning on the bare heights;
For the Lord has (BA)rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

30 For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord. “They have (BB)put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 31 They have (BC)built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, to (BD)burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I (BE)did not command, and it did not come into My [m]mind.

32 “(BF)Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter; for they will (BG)bury in Topheth [n]because there is no other place. 33 The (BH)dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. 34 Then I will (BI)eliminate from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride; for the (BJ)land will become a site of ruins.

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:4 Lit They are
  2. Jeremiah 7:6 Or fatherless
  3. Jeremiah 7:9 Or burn incense
  4. Jeremiah 7:15 Lit seed
  5. Jeremiah 7:18 Lit sons
  6. Jeremiah 7:19 Lit their faces’
  7. Jeremiah 7:20 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  8. Jeremiah 7:23 Lit the word
  9. Jeremiah 7:23 Lit in all the way
  10. Jeremiah 7:24 Lit were
  11. Jeremiah 7:28 Or faithfulness
  12. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit your crown
  13. Jeremiah 7:31 Lit heart
  14. Jeremiah 7:32 Or until there is no place left

Cross references

  1. Jeremiah 7:2 : Jer 17:19; 26:2
  2. Jeremiah 7:3 : Jer 4:1; 7:5; 18:11; 26:13
  3. Jeremiah 7:4 : Jer 7:8; Mic 3:11
  4. Jeremiah 7:5 : Is 1:19; Jer 4:1, 2
  5. Jeremiah 7:5 : 1 Kin 6:12; Jer 21:12; 22:3
  6. Jeremiah 7:6 : Ex 22:21-24; Jer 5:28
  7. Jeremiah 7:6 : Jer 2:34; 19:4
  8. Jeremiah 7:6 : Deut 6:14, 15; 8:19; 11:28; Jer 13:10
  9. Jeremiah 7:7 : Deut 4:40
  10. Jeremiah 7:7 : Jer 3:18
  11. Jeremiah 7:8 : Jer 7:4; 28:15
  12. Jeremiah 7:9 : Jer 11:13, 17
  13. Jeremiah 7:9 : Ex 20:3; Jer 7:6; 19:4
  14. Jeremiah 7:10 : Ezek 23:39
  15. Jeremiah 7:10 : Jer 7:11, 14, 30; 32:34
  16. Jeremiah 7:11 : Is 56:7
  17. Jeremiah 7:11 : Matt 21:13; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46
  18. Jeremiah 7:11 : Jer 29:23
  19. Jeremiah 7:12 : Judg 18:31; Jer 26:6
  20. Jeremiah 7:12 : Josh 18:1, 10
  21. Jeremiah 7:12 : 1 Sam 4:10, 11, 22; Ps 78:60-64
  22. Jeremiah 7:13 : Jer 35:17
  23. Jeremiah 7:13 : Prov 1:24; Is 65:12; 66:4
  24. Jeremiah 7:14 : Deut 12:5; 1 Kin 9:7
  25. Jeremiah 7:14 : Jer 7:4
  26. Jeremiah 7:14 : Jer 7:12
  27. Jeremiah 7:15 : Jer 15:1; 52:3
  28. Jeremiah 7:15 : Ps 78:67; Hos 7:13; 9:13; 12:1
  29. Jeremiah 7:16 : Ex 32:10; Deut 9:14; Jer 11:14
  30. Jeremiah 7:18 : Jer 19:13
  31. Jeremiah 7:18 : Deut 32:16, 21; 1 Kin 14:9; 16:2; Jer 11:17; Ezek 8:17
  32. Jeremiah 7:19 : Job 35:6; 1 Cor 10:22
  33. Jeremiah 7:19 : Jer 9:19; 15:9; 22:22
  34. Jeremiah 7:20 : Is 42:25; Jer 6:11, 12; 42:18; Lam 2:3-5; 4:11
  35. Jeremiah 7:20 : Jer 8:13; 11:16
  36. Jeremiah 7:21 : Is 1:11; Jer 6:20; 14:12; Amos 5:22
  37. Jeremiah 7:21 : Ezek 33:25; Hos 8:13
  38. Jeremiah 7:22 : 1 Sam 15:22; Ps 51:16; Hos 6:6
  39. Jeremiah 7:23 : Ex 15:26; 16:32; Deut 6:3
  40. Jeremiah 7:23 : Ex 19:5, 6; Lev 26:12; Jer 11:4; 13:11
  41. Jeremiah 7:23 : Is 3:10; Jer 38:20; 42:6
  42. Jeremiah 7:24 : Deut 29:19; Ps 81:11; Jer 11:8; Ezek 20:8, 13, 16, 21
  43. Jeremiah 7:24 : Jer 15:6
  44. Jeremiah 7:25 : 2 Chr 36:15; Jer 25:4; 29:19; Luke 11:49
  45. Jeremiah 7:26 : Neh 9:16; Jer 17:23; 19:15
  46. Jeremiah 7:26 : Jer 16:12; Matt 23:32
  47. Jeremiah 7:27 : Jer 1:7; 26:2; Ezek 2:7
  48. Jeremiah 7:27 : Is 50:2; 65:12; Zech 7:13
  49. Jeremiah 7:28 : Jer 6:17; 11:10
  50. Jeremiah 7:28 : Is 59:14, 15; Jer 9:5
  51. Jeremiah 7:29 : Job 1:20; Is 15:2; 22:12; Jer 16:6; Mic 1:16
  52. Jeremiah 7:29 : Jer 3:21; 9:17, 18
  53. Jeremiah 7:29 : Jer 6:30; 14:19
  54. Jeremiah 7:30 : 2 Kin 21:3f; 2 Chr 33:3-5, 7; Jer 32:34, 35; Ezek 7:20; Dan 9:27; 11:31
  55. Jeremiah 7:31 : 2 Kin 23:10; Jer 19:5; 32:35
  56. Jeremiah 7:31 : Lev 18:21; 2 Kin 17:17; Ps 106:38
  57. Jeremiah 7:31 : Deut 17:3
  58. Jeremiah 7:32 : Jer 19:6, 11
  59. Jeremiah 7:32 : 2 Kin 23:10
  60. Jeremiah 7:33 : Deut 28:26; Ps 79:2; Jer 12:9; 19:7
  61. Jeremiah 7:34 : Is 24:7, 8; Jer 16:9; 25:10; Ezek 26:13; Hos 2:11; Rev 18:23
  62. Jeremiah 7:34 : Lev 26:33; Is 1:7; Jer 4:27

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