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Jeremiah Chapter 7

Jeremiah
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Jeremiah

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Jeremiah calls the people of Judah to repentance, accusing them of worshiping foreign gods and breaking their covenant with God. He describes the king’s and the people’s sin, the destruction of the sacred altar, and the ongoing idolatry that brings divine wrath. The chapter warns that persistent sin leads to judgment and emphasizes the need for true worship of the one true God.

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(1) The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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(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.
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Jeremiah 17:19Jeremiah 19:2Jeremiah 19:14Jeremiah 22:1Jeremiah 26:2Jeremiah 36:6Jeremiah 36:10Proverbs 1:20Proverbs 1:21Proverbs 8:2Proverbs 8:3John 18:20

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(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.
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Jeremiah 7:5Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 7:7Jeremiah 18:11Jeremiah 26:13Jeremiah 35:15Proverbs 28:13Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 1:17Isaiah 1:18Isaiah 1:19Isaiah 55:7

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Jeremiah 7:5Jeremiah 26:13Jeremiah 32:19Zechariah 1:4Zechariah 1:6Zechariah 1:3

(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.
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Jeremiah 7:8Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 29:23Jeremiah 29:31Ezekiel 13:19Matthew 3:9Matthew 3:10Jeremiah 7:9Jeremiah 7:10Jeremiah 7:11Jeremiah 7:12

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II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10Ezra 5:14I Corinthians 3:17Ezra 6:5Nehemiah 6:10

(5) For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
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Jeremiah 21:12Zechariah 8:16Jeremiah 7:3Jeremiah 26:13Jeremiah 32:19

(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:
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Jeremiah 22:3Jeremiah 22:4Jeremiah 22:15Jeremiah 22:16Exodus 22:21Exodus 22:22Exodus 22:23Exodus 22:24Deuteronomy 24:17Deuteronomy 27:19Job 31:13Job 31:14

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Judges 10:6Jeremiah 22:3Zechariah 7:10Malachi 3:5Jeremiah 13:10II Kings 24:4

(7) Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
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Jeremiah 17:20Jeremiah 17:21Jeremiah 17:22Jeremiah 17:23Jeremiah 17:24Jeremiah 17:25Jeremiah 17:26Jeremiah 17:27Jeremiah 18:7Jeremiah 18:8Jeremiah 25:5Jeremiah 3:18

(8) Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
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Jeremiah 7:4Jeremiah 4:10Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 8:10Jeremiah 14:13Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 23:14Jeremiah 23:15Jeremiah 23:16Jeremiah 23:26Jeremiah 23:32Isaiah 28:15

(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;
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Jeremiah 9:2Jeremiah 9:3Jeremiah 9:4Jeremiah 9:5Jeremiah 9:6Jeremiah 9:7Jeremiah 9:8Jeremiah 9:9Psalms 50:16Psalms 50:17Psalms 50:18Psalms 50:19

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(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?
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Proverbs 7:14Proverbs 7:15Proverbs 15:8Isaiah 1:10Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 1:12Isaiah 1:13Isaiah 1:14Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 48:2Isaiah 58:2Isaiah 58:3

(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.
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II Chronicles 6:33Isaiah 56:7Matthew 21:13Mark 11:17Luke 19:45Luke 19:46John 2:16Jeremiah 2:34Jeremiah 16:16Jeremiah 16:17Jeremiah 23:24Hebrews 4:13

(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.
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Joshua 18:1Judges 18:31I Samuel 1:3Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:11Jeremiah 26:6I Samuel 4:3I Samuel 4:4I Samuel 4:10I Samuel 4:11I Samuel 4:22Psalms 78:60

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Jeremiah 44:9

(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;
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Jeremiah 7:25Jeremiah 11:7Jeremiah 25:3Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 44:4II Chronicles 36:15II Chronicles 36:16Nehemiah 9:29Nehemiah 9:30Proverbs 1:24Isaiah 50:2Isaiah 65:12

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Jeremiah 25:3Jeremiah 35:14Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

(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.
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Jeremiah 7:4Jeremiah 7:10Deuteronomy 28:52Micah 3:11Acts 6:13Acts 6:14Jeremiah 26:6Jeremiah 26:7Jeremiah 26:8Jeremiah 26:9Jeremiah 26:18Jeremiah 52:13

(15) And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
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Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 15:1Jeremiah 23:39Jeremiah 52:3II Kings 17:18II Kings 17:19II Kings 17:20II Kings 17:23II Kings 24:20Hosea 1:4Hosea 9:9Hosea 9:16

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13

(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.
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Jeremiah 11:14Jeremiah 14:11Jeremiah 14:12Jeremiah 15:1Jeremiah 18:20Exodus 32:10Ezekiel 14:14Ezekiel 14:15Ezekiel 14:16Ezekiel 14:17Ezekiel 14:18Ezekiel 14:19

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(17) Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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Jeremiah 6:27Ezekiel 8:6Ezekiel 8:7Ezekiel 8:8Ezekiel 8:9Ezekiel 8:10Ezekiel 8:11Ezekiel 8:12Ezekiel 8:13Ezekiel 8:14Ezekiel 8:15Ezekiel 8:16

(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.
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(19) Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
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(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.
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(21) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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(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:
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I Samuel 15:22Psalms 40:6Psalms 50:8Psalms 50:9Psalms 50:10Psalms 50:11Psalms 50:12Psalms 50:13Psalms 50:14Psalms 50:15Psalms 50:16Psalms 50:17

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(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.
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Jeremiah 11:4Jeremiah 11:7Exodus 15:26Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Leviticus 26:3Leviticus 26:4Leviticus 26:5Leviticus 26:6Leviticus 26:7Leviticus 26:8Leviticus 26:9

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(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.
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(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:
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(26) Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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(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.
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Jeremiah 1:7Jeremiah 26:2Ezekiel 2:4Ezekiel 2:5Ezekiel 2:6Ezekiel 2:7Ezekiel 3:17Ezekiel 3:18Acts 20:27Jeremiah 1:19Isaiah 6:9Isaiah 6:10

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(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.
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Jeremiah 2:30Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 6:29Jeremiah 6:30Isaiah 1:4Isaiah 1:5Zephaniah 3:2Jeremiah 6:8Jeremiah 32:33Psalms 50:17Proverbs 1:7Zephaniah 3:7

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(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.
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Jeremiah 16:6Jeremiah 47:5Jeremiah 48:37Job 1:20Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 15:3Micah 1:16Jeremiah 9:17Jeremiah 9:18Jeremiah 9:19Jeremiah 9:20Jeremiah 9:21

(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.
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Jeremiah 23:11Jeremiah 32:34II Kings 21:4II Kings 21:7II Kings 23:4II Kings 23:5II Kings 23:6II Kings 23:12II Chronicles 33:4II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:7II Chronicles 33:15

(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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(32) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the 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.
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(33) And 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.
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Jeremiah 8:1Jeremiah 8:2Jeremiah 9:22Jeremiah 12:9Jeremiah 16:4Jeremiah 22:19Jeremiah 25:33Jeremiah 34:20Deuteronomy 28:26Psalms 79:2Psalms 79:3Ezekiel 39:4

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(34) Then will I cause to cease from the cities of 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.
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Jeremiah 16:9Jeremiah 25:10Jeremiah 33:10Isaiah 24:7Isaiah 24:8Ezekiel 26:13Hosea 2:11Revelation 18:23Jeremiah 4:27Leviticus 26:33Isaiah 1:7Isaiah 3:26

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