Daily Meditation
3 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.
Today’s Reading
Jeremiah
Chapter 7
The Temple Of The
Lord
1 The word that came
to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and
proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah,
that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord. 3 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. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of
the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. 5 For if
ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment
between a man and his neighbour; 6 if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after
other gods to your hurt: 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the
land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust
in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, 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.
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