1The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahuah (LORD), saying,
2Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahuah (LORD), all you of Yahudah (Judah), that enter in at these gates to worship Yahuah (LORD).
3Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), the Elohim (God) of Yashar'el (Israel), Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahuah (LORD), The temple of Yahuah (LORD), The temple of Yahuah (LORD), are these.
5For if you throughly amend your ways and your doings; if you throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6If you 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:
7Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says Yahuah (LORD).
12But go you 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 Yashar'el (Israel).
13And now, because you have done all these works, says Yahuah (LORD), and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
17See you not what they do in the cities of Yahudah (Judah) and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18The 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.
19Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahuah (LORD): do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20Therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD); 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.
21Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), the Elohim (God) of Yashar'el (Israel); Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22For 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:
23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your Elohim (God), and you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24But 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.
25Since 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:
26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27Therefore you shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to you: you shall also call unto them; but they will not answer you.
28But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of Yahuah (LORD) their Elohim (God), nor receives correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for Yahuah (LORD) has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30For the children of Yahudah (Judah) have done evil in my sight, says Yahuah (LORD): they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31And 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.
32Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahuah (LORD), that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Yahudah (Judah), and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.