THE Word that came to El-Yirmeyahu from Yahuah, saying,
Stand in the gate of Yahuah's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the Word of Yahuah, all ye of Yahudah, that enter in at these gates to worship Yahuah.
Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of Yahuah, The Temple of Yahuah, The Temple of Yahuah, are these.
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other elohiym to your hurt:
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, kill, and break wedlock, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Ba`al, and walk after other elohiym whom ye know not;
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do את 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, says Yahuah.
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiyloh, where I set my name at the first, and see את what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Yashar'el.
And now, because ye have done all these works, says Yahuah, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
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 Shiyloh.
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, את even the whole seed of Ephrayim.
Therefore pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
See you not what they do in the cities of Yahudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim?
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make sacrificial wafers to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other elohiym, that they may provoke me to anger.
Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahuah: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah; 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.
Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; Put your ascending smoke offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, concerning ascending smoke offerings or sacrifices:
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your Elohiym, 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.
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.
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Mitsrayim unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Therefore 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.
But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of Yahuah Elohayhem, nor receives correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Cut off your hair, O Yerushalayim, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for Yahuah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
For the children of Yahudah have done evil in my sight, says Yahuah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
And they have built the high places of Topheth, 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.
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahuah, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place.
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Yahudah, and from the streets of Yerushalayim, 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.