Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 7:1 (show verse)
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying},
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 7:2 (show verse)
"Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, [those who] enter through these gates to bow in worship to Yahweh.
Jeremiah 7:3 (show verse)
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Make your ways and your deeds good and let me dwell with you in this place.
Jeremiah 7:4 (show verse)
Do not trust in {the deceitful words}, {saying}, 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they [are] the temple of Yahweh.'
Jeremiah 7:5 (show verse)
For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 7:6 (show verse)
you do not oppress [the] alien, [the] orphan, and [the] widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods {to your harm},
Jeremiah 7:7 (show verse)
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors {forever and ever}.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 7:8 (show verse)
Look, you [are] relying for yourselves on {deceitful words} without benefiting.
Jeremiah 7:9 (show verse)
Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear {falsely}? And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known?
Jeremiah 7:10 (show verse)
And then you come and you stand {before} me in this house, which is called {by my name}, and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing} all of these detestable things.'
Jeremiah 7:11 (show verse)
Has this house, which is called {by my name}, become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen [it]," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 7:12 (show verse)
"For go now to my place that [was] in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell in the beginning, and see what I did to it {because of} the wickedness of my people Israel.
Jeremiah 7:13 (show verse)
And now, because of your doing all these things," {declares} Yahweh, "and {I have spoken to you over and over again}, and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered,
Jeremiah 7:14 (show verse)
therefore I will do to the house that is called {by my name}, in which you [are] trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors {what} I did to Shiloh.
Jeremiah 7:15 (show verse)
And I will cast you {out of my sight} just as I cast out all of your blood relatives, all of the offspring of Ephraim." '
Jeremiah 7:16 (show verse)
"And you, you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty or a prayer, and you must not plead with me, for I [will] not hear you.
Jeremiah 7:17 (show verse)
[Do] you not see what they [are] doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 7:18 (show verse)
The children [are] gathering wood, and the fathers [are] kindling the fire, and the women [are] kneading dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out libations to other gods for the sake of provoking me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:19 (show verse)
[Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?"
Jeremiah 7:20 (show verse)
{Therefore} thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Look, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished."
Jeremiah 7:21 (show verse)
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat [the] flesh.
Jeremiah 7:22 (show verse)
For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice.
Jeremiah 7:23 (show verse)
But I only commanded them this word, {saying}, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'
Jeremiah 7:24 (show verse)
Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in [their own] plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.
Jeremiah 7:25 (show verse)
From the day that your ancestors came out from the land of Egypt until this day I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, day after day, {sending again and again}.
Jeremiah 7:26 (show verse)
Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 7:27 (show verse)
So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 7:28 (show verse)
"And you shall say to them, 'This [is] the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths.
Jeremiah 7:29 (show verse)
Shear your hair and throw [it] away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
Jeremiah 7:30 (show verse)
For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes," {declares} Yahweh, "They have set their abominations in the house that is called {by my name}, to defile it.
Jeremiah 7:31 (show verse)
And they built the high place of Topheth, which [is] in [the] Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.
Jeremiah 7:32 (show verse)
Therefore look, days [are] about to come," {declares} Yahweh, "and it will no longer be called Topheth or [the] Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth {until there is no more place}.
Jeremiah 7:33 (show verse)
And the dead bodies of this people [will be] as food for the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth, without anyone to scare [them] away.
Jeremiah 7:34 (show verse)
And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem [the] sound of jubilation, and [the] sound of joy, [the] voice of [the] bridegroom, and [the] voice of [the] bride, for the land will become a site of ruins.