Jeremiah 7 (NET)

Jeremiah 7:1¹The Lord said to Jeremiah:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Jeremiah 7:2²“Stand in the gate of the Lord ’s temple and proclaim this message: ‘Listen to the Lord ’s message, all you people of Judah who have passed through these gates to worship the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 26:2Amos 7:16Ezek 2:4-5Isa 1:10Jer 22:1-2Rev 3:221 Kgs 22:19Hos 5:1Jer 10:1Jer 17:19-20

Jeremiah 7:3³The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 18:11Jer 26:13Prov 28:13Isa 1:16-19Isa 55:7Ezek 18:30-31Ezek 33:4-11Jer 7:5-7Matt 3:8-10Jas 4:8

Jeremiah 7:4⁴Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says, “We are safe! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 3:11Matt 3:9-10Zeph 3:11Ezek 13:19Jer 29:311 Sam 4:3-4Jer 28:15Jer 6:14Jer 7:8-12Luke 3:8

Jeremiah 7:5⁵You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 6:12-13Isa 1:19Jer 4:1-2Jer 7:3Ezek 18:17Ezek 18:8Isa 16:3Jer 22:3Judg 21:12

Jeremiah 7:6⁶Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:21-24Deut 8:19Jer 13:10Zech 7:9-12Deut 11:28Deut 6:14-15Jer 2:34Deut 24:17Deut 27:19Isa 59:7

Jeremiah 7:7⁷If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land that I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:40Jer 25:5Jer 18:7-8Jer 3:182 Chr 33:8Jer 17:20-27

Jeremiah 7:8⁸“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:15Ezek 13:6-16Isa 30:10Jer 14:13-14Jer 23:14-16Jer 23:26Jer 23:32Jer 4:10Jer 5:31Jer 7:4

Jeremiah 7:9⁹You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:3Jer 7:6Jas 4:1-4Jer 11:13Jer 11:171 Kgs 18:21Gal 5:19-21Rev 22:15Rom 2:21 Cor 6:9-10

Jeremiah 7:10¹⁰Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say, “We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 32:34Ezek 23:37Ezek 23:39Jer 34:15Jer 7:11Jer 7:14Jer 7:302 Chr 33:42 Chr 33:72 Kgs 21:4

Jeremiah 7:11¹¹Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 56:7Luke 19:45-46Matt 21:13Mark 11:172 Chr 6:33John 2:16Jer 23:24Heb 4:13Jer 16:16-17Jer 2:34

Jeremiah 7:12¹²So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped in the early days. See what I did to it because of the wicked things my people Israel did.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 4:10-11Jer 26:6Josh 18:1Judg 18:31Ps 78:60-641 Sam 4:221 Sam 1:31 Sam 4:3-4Deut 12:11Deut 12:5

Jeremiah 7:13¹³You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 65:122 Chr 36:15-16Jer 7:25Prov 1:24Hos 11:2Zech 7:13Hos 11:7Isa 50:2Isa 66:4Jer 11:7

Jeremiah 7:14¹⁴So I will destroy this temple that I have claimed as my own, this temple that you are trusting to protect you. I will destroy this place that I gave to you and your ancestors, just like I destroyed Shiloh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:9Ps 78:60Jer 7:4Deut 28:52Jer 7:101 Kgs 9:7-81 Sam 4:10-112 Chr 36:18-192 Chr 7:21Acts 6:13-14

Jeremiah 7:15¹⁵And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 15:12 Kgs 17:23Hos 13:16Hos 9:16-17Jer 52:32 Chr 15:92 Kgs 17:18-202 Kgs 24:20Hos 1:4Hos 12:1

Jeremiah 7:16¹⁶“But as for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not raise a cry of prayer for them! Do not plead with me to save them, because I will not listen to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 11:14Jer 14:11-12Isa 1:15Jer 15:1Ezek 14:14-20Exod 32:10Jer 18:20Mic 3:41 John 5:16Deut 9:14

Jeremiah 7:17¹⁷Do you see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:23Ezek 8:6-18Jer 6:27

Jeremiah 7:18¹⁸Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 19:13Jer 44:17-191 Cor 10:221 Kgs 14:91 Kgs 16:2Deut 32:16Deut 32:21Deut 32:37-38Deut 4:19Jer 11:17

Jeremiah 7:19¹⁹But I am not really the one being troubled! says the Lord. Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:22Dan 9:7-8Ezek 8:17-18Jer 2:19Jer 20:11Jer 9:19Job 35:6Deut 32:16Deut 32:21-22Ezra 9:7

Jeremiah 7:20²⁰So, the Sovereign Lord says, my raging fury will be poured out on this land. It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. And it will burn like a fire that cannot be extinguished.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 42:18Isa 42:25Jer 17:27Lam 2:3-5Ezek 22:22Jer 44:6Lam 4:11Nah 1:62 Kgs 22:17Isa 66:24

Jeremiah 7:21²¹“The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says to the people of Judah: ‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 8:13Jer 6:20Amos 5:21-23Isa 1:11-15

Jeremiah 7:22²²Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 6:61 Sam 15:22Ps 51:16-17Matt 9:13Ps 40:6Ps 50:8-17Mark 12:33

Jeremiah 7:23²³I also explicitly commanded them: “Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:26Deut 5:33Exod 19:5-6Heb 5:9Jer 42:6Deut 6:3Deut 13:4Deut 30:20Jer 11:4Deut 5:29

Jeremiah 7:24²⁴But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 81:11-12Deut 29:19Jer 7:26Jer 8:5Ezek 20:13Jer 32:33Exod 32:7-8Ezek 20:21Ezek 20:8Hos 4:16

Jeremiah 7:25²⁵From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, day after day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:15Jer 25:4Neh 9:26Ezek 2:3Jer 7:13Luke 20:10-12Matt 21:34-361 Sam 8:7-8Deut 9:21-24Deut 9:7

Jeremiah 7:26²⁶But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 16:122 Chr 30:8Jer 17:23Jer 19:15Jer 7:24Matt 23:322 Chr 33:102 Kgs 17:14Acts 7:51Dan 9:6

Jeremiah 7:27²⁷Then the Lord said to me, “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 50:2Isa 65:12Jer 1:7Jer 26:2Zech 7:13Acts 20:27Ezek 2:4-7Ezek 3:17-18Ezek 3:4-11Isa 6:9-10

Jeremiah 7:28²⁸So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:14-15Isa 1:4-5Jer 32:33Prov 1:7Zeph 3:2Hos 4:1Jer 2:30Jer 5:1Jer 5:3Jer 6:29-30

Jeremiah 7:29²⁹So mourn, you people of this nation. Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the Lord has decided to reject and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 1:20Jer 6:30Mic 1:16Jer 16:62 Kgs 17:20Acts 2:40Deut 32:5Ezek 19:1Ezek 28:12Isa 15:2-3

Jeremiah 7:30³⁰The Lord says, “I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple that I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 7:20Jer 32:34Dan 9:272 Chr 33:4-52 Chr 33:72 Kgs 21:42 Kgs 21:72 Chr 33:152 Kgs 23:122 Kgs 23:4-6

Jeremiah 7:31³¹They have also built places of worship in a place called Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:102 Kgs 17:17Jer 32:35Lev 18:212 Chr 28:3Deut 12:31Ezek 16:20Jer 19:5-6Lev 20:1-5Ps 106:37-38

Jeremiah 7:32³²So, watch out!” says the Lord. “The time will soon come when people will no longer call those places Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. But they will call that valley the Valley of Slaughter, and they will bury so many people in Topheth they will run out of room.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 19:11Jer 19:62 Kgs 23:10Ezek 6:5-7Jer 19:13Jer 7:31Lev 26:30

Jeremiah 7:33³³Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:26Jer 12:9Rev 19:17-18Ezek 39:18-20Ezek 39:4Jer 16:4Jer 19:7Jer 22:19Jer 25:33Jer 34:20

Jeremiah 7:34³⁴I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 26:13Hos 2:11Rev 18:23Isa 1:7Isa 24:7-8Jer 25:10Lev 26:33Isa 3:26Jer 16:9Jer 4:27