WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.020 Chapter seven. 00:01.800 --> 00:04.380 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 00:30.440 --> 00:34.520 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute 00:34.520 --> 00:38.360 judgment between a man and his neighbor, if ye oppress not the stranger, 00:38.460 --> 00:41.800 the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, 00:42.060 --> 00:46.560 neither walk after other gods to your hurt, then will I cause you to dwell in 00:46.560 --> 00:50.120 this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever. 00:51.340 --> 00:54.380 Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. 00:55.200 --> 00:58.760 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely and burn 00:58.760 --> 01:03.840 incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not, and come and stand 01:03.840 --> 01:08.280 before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to 01:08.280 --> 01:09.800 do all these abominations. 01:10.760 --> 01:14.900 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? 01:15.500 --> 01:18.620 Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord. 01:19.600 --> 01:24.280 But go ye now unto my place, which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, 01:24.280 --> 01:27.900 and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 01:28.940 --> 01:33.240 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto 01:33.240 --> 01:37.880 you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not, and I called you, 01:37.940 --> 01:38.920 but ye answered not. 01:39.680 --> 01:43.300 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye 01:43.300 --> 01:47.760 trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to 01:47.760 --> 01:48.220 Shiloh. 01:48.760 --> 01:52.820 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, 01:52.820 --> 01:54.880 even the whole seed of Ephraim. 01:55.780 --> 02:00.100 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, 02:00.840 --> 02:04.200 neither make intercession to me, for I will not hear thee. 02:05.160 --> 02:08.660 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 02:09.480 --> 02:14.580 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their 02:14.580 --> 02:18.640 dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings 02:18.640 --> 02:21.880 unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 02:22.520 --> 02:24.820 Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? 02:25.420 --> 02:28.600 Do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? 02:29.960 --> 02:34.420 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be 02:34.420 --> 02:40.100 poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the 02:40.100 --> 02:44.940 field, and upon the fruit of the ground, and it shall burn, and shall not be 02:44.940 --> 02:45.420 quenched. 02:46.300 --> 02:50.900 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Put your burnt offerings unto your 02:50.900 --> 02:52.340 sacrifices, and eat flesh. 02:53.320 --> 02:57.080 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I 02:57.080 --> 03:01.020 brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. 03:01.800 --> 03:07.000 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your 03:07.000 --> 03:11.240 God, and ye shall be my people, and walk ye in all the ways that I have 03:11.240 --> 03:13.660 commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 03:14.420 --> 03:18.580 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the councils and in the 03:18.580 --> 03:21.960 imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. 03:23.080 --> 03:26.580 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, 03:27.040 --> 03:31.660 I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early, 03:31.940 --> 03:32.620 and sending them. 03:33.460 --> 03:37.680 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their 03:37.680 --> 03:37.980 neck. 03:38.480 --> 03:39.800 They did worse than their fathers. 03:40.940 --> 03:44.800 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to 03:44.800 --> 03:44.980 thee. 03:45.480 --> 03:48.680 Thou shalt also call unto them, but they will not answer thee. 03:49.340 --> 03:53.940 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the 03:53.940 --> 03:56.140 Lord their God, nor receiveth correction. 03:56.740 --> 03:59.580 Truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. 04:00.520 --> 04:04.160 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a 04:04.160 --> 04:05.640 lamentation on high places. 04:06.240 --> 04:10.120 For the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 04:11.020 --> 04:15.020 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord. 04:15.660 --> 04:18.900 They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, 04:19.120 --> 04:19.860 to pollute it. 04:20.520 --> 04:24.480 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son 04:24.480 --> 04:28.820 of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I commanded 04:28.820 --> 04:31.480 them not, neither came it into my heart. 04:32.300 --> 04:36.460 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be 04:36.460 --> 04:41.280 called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter. 04:42.120 --> 04:45.100 For they shall bury in Topheth till there be no place. 04:45.720 --> 04:49.440 And the carcasses of this people shall be meet for the fowls of the heaven and for 04:49.440 --> 04:52.620 the beasts of the earth, and none shall fray them away. 04:53.800 --> 04:57.740 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem 04:57.740 --> 05:03.040 the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and 05:03.040 --> 05:06.760 the voice of the bride, for the land shall be desolate.