Jeremiah 7 HCSB NIV Parallel

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1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

2"Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and there call out this word: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

2"Stand at the gate of the LORD's house and there proclaim this message: "'Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD.

3"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your deeds, and I will allow you to live in this place.

3This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.

4Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.

4Do not trust in deceptive words and say, "This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!"

5Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,

5If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,

6if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,

6if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,

7I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.

7then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.

8But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

8But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

9"Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?

9"'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,

10Then do you come and stand before Me in this house called by My name and say, 'We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts?

10and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe"--safe to do all these detestable things?

11Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it." This is the LORD's declaration.

11Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD.

12"But return to My place that was at Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at first. See what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.

12"'Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

13Now, because you have done all these things"--this is the LORD's declaration--"and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn't listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn't answer,

13While you were doing all these things, declares the LORD, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.

14what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name--the house in which you trust--the place that I gave you and your ancestors.

14Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors.

15I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

15I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.'

16"As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

16"So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.

17Don't you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

17Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger.

18The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.

19But are they really provoking Me?" This is the LORD's declaration. "Isn't it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?"

19But am I the one they are provoking? declares the LORD. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?

20Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "Look, My anger--My burning wrath--is about to be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched."

20"'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place--on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land--and it will burn and not be quenched.

21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,

21"'This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

22for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.

22For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

23However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.

23but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.

24Yet they didn't listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

24But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

25Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets to you time and time again.

25From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.

26However, they wouldn't listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.

26But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.'

27"When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

27"When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.

28You must therefore declare to them: This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not accept discipline. Truth has perished--it has disappeared from their mouths.

28Therefore say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

29Cut off the hair of your sacred vow and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath.

29"'Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.

30"For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight." This is the LORD's declaration. "They have set up their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.

30"'The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.

31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire--something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.

32"Therefore, take note! Days are coming"--the LORD's declaration--"when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. Topheth will become a cemetery, because there will be no other burial place.

32So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

33The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.

33Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

34I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

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