Jeremiah 7:16-20 - Do Not Pray For Judah

¹⁶ "Therefore thou shalt not pray for this people; thou shalt neither give thanks, nor bid prayer for them: thou shalt make no intercession to me for them for in no wise will I hear thee. ¹⁷ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and without Jerusalem? ¹⁸ The children gather sticks, the fathers kindle the fire, the mothers knead the dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings unto strange gods, to provoke me unto wrath. ¹⁹ Howbeit, they hurt not me," sayeth the LORD, "but rather confound, and shame themselves."

²⁰ And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God, "Behold, my wrath and my indignation shall be poured out upon this place, upon men and cattle, upon the trees in the field and all fruit of the land, and it shall burn so, that no man may quench it."