8 Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit 9 Will ye steal murder and commit adultery and swear false.ly and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not 10 And come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say We are delivered to do all these abominations 11 Is 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
12 But 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 13 And 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 14 Therefore 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 15 And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren even the whole seed of Ephraim
16 Therefore 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 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem 18 The 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 19 Do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces 20 Therefore 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
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh 22 For 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 23 But 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 24 But 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 25 Since 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 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers
27 Therefore 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 28 But 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
29 Cut 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
30 For 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 31 And 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
32 Therefore 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 33 And 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 34 Then 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
