Jeremiah 7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
place. Trust ye not in lying words… For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings,
if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbor… then will I cause you to dwell in this
place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever. Behold,
ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely… and come and stand before me in this
house, which is called by my name, and say, We are free to do all these
abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers
in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, said the LORD. ~ Jeremiah 7:3-5, 7-11
And now
because ye have done all these works, said the LORD and I spoke well unto you,
rising up early and speaking, but ye did not hear; and I called you, but ye did
not answer; therefore I will do unto this house, which is called by my name, in
which ye trust, and unto this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as
I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out
of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of
Ephraim. 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. ~ Jeremiah 7:13-16
to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may
provoke me to anger. Shall they
provoke me to anger? said the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces? Therefore
thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, my 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. ~ Jeremiah 7:18-20
For I did not speak unto your fathers, nor command them in
the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt (EUROPE in the case of our
American foefathers) concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hear my voice, and I will
be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have
commanded you that it may be well unto you. But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but walked in their
own counsels in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward, and not
forward 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; yet they did not hearken unto me, nor
incline their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but
they will not hearken to thee: thou
shalt even call unto them; but they will not answer thee. Therefore thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that did not
hear the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive chastisement; the faith is
lost and was cut off from their mouth…for the LORD has cast off and forsaken the nation of
his wrath…have done evil in my sight, said the LORD; they have set
their abominations in the house which is called by my name to pollute it…And
they have…burn(t) their sons and their daughters in
the fire,(see ABORTION!!!) which I did not command them, neither did it
come into my heart. ~ Jeremiah 7:22-31
And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls
of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to
chase them away…for the land shall be desolate. ~ Jeremiah 7:33-34
Jeremiah 8
Why then is this people…slidden
back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of
his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, but my people did not know
the judgment of the LORD. How do ye say, We are wise,
and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain did he make
the pen; the scribes were in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed
and taken: behold, they have rejected
the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? for each one from the least even unto the greatest is given to
greed; from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely. ~ Jeremiah 8:5-10
Were
they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all
ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those that
should fall: when I visit them, they shall fall, saith the LORD. I will surely cut them off
completely, said the LORD: there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the
fig tree, and the leaf shall fall; and the
things that I have given them shall pass away from them…for the LORD
our God has put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink because we have
sinned against the LORD. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for
a time of health, and behold trouble! For,
behold, I send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and
they shall bite you, said the LORD. ~ Jeremiah 8:12-15, 17
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