Thoroughly Change Your Ways & Actions & I Will Allow You to Live Here |
Jeremiah 7:1-34 The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks] |
The Word from the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, Stand in the gate of the Lord's house & proclaim this Word there & say, Hear the Word of the Lord, all you of Judah, [who] enter these gates to worship the Lord. |
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says [this, Change] your ways & your [actions] & I will cause you to [live] in this place. [Don't] you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, these are The [temples] of the Lord. |
[Micah 3:11 The [leaders of it] judge for [bribes] & [its] priests teach for [pay] & [its] prophets divine for money. [Still,] they will lean upon the Lord & say, Isn't the Lord among us? [No] evil can come upon us.] |
For if you thoroughly [change] your ways & your [actions] & if you thoroughly [deliver justice] between a man & his neighbor. If you [don't] oppress the stranger, the fatherless, the widow & [don't] shed [the] blood of the innocent, in this place & neither [follow] after other gods to your [harm,] then, I will cause you to [live] in this place, in the land that I gave to your [forefathers,] forever & ever. [See,] you trust in lying words, that can't [benefit.] |
[Jeremiah 14:13-14 Then, I said, Ah, Lord God! [Look,] the prophets say to them, You shall not see the sword & neither shall you have famine. But I will give you [certain] peace in this place. |
Then, the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My Name. I [didn't send] them, neither have I commanded them & neither [did I speak] to them. They prophesy to you a false vision & divination, a [worthless] thing & the deceit of their heart.] |
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, & burn incense to Baal & [follow] after other gods, whom you [don't] know & come & stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name & say, We are [called] to do all these abominations? |
[Ezekiel 23:39 For when they had [sacrificed] their children to their idols, then they came the same day into My sanctuary to [defile] it. And [look,] they have done [this] in the midst of [My] house.] |
[Has] this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of [thieves] in your eyes? [Look,] even I have seen it, says the Lord. But you go now to My place, [that] was in Shiloh, where I [put] My Name, at the [beginning] & see what I did to it, [because of] the wickedness of My people, Israel. |
[Psalm 78:58-62 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places & moved Him to jealousy with their [carved] images. When God heard this, He was [furious] & greatly [loathed] Israel. |
So that He [abandoned] the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [that] He placed among men & delivered His strength into captivity & His glory into the enemy's hand. He also gave His people over to the sword & was [angry] with His inheritance.] |
The Lord says, And now, because you have done all these [deeds] & I [spoke] to you, rising up early [to warn,] speaking, but you [didn't listen.] And I called you, but you [didn't answer.] |
[Jeremiah 25:4-7 And the Lord has sent to you all His servants, the prophets, rising early & sending them; but you haven't [paid attention,] nor [leaned] your ear to hear. |
They said, Everyone now [return] again from his evil [ways] & from the evil of your [actions] & [live] in the land that the Lord has given to you & to your [forefathers] forever & ever. |
And [don't] go after other gods to serve & worship them & [don't] provoke Me to anger with the works [made by] your hands & I will do you no [harm.] Yet, you haven't [paid attention] to Me; [so] that you might provoke Me to anger with whe works [made by] your hands, to your own [harm.] |
Therefore, I will do to this house, which is called by My Name, [in which] you trust & to the place [that] I gave to you & to your [forefathers, like] I have done to Shiloh. [1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fought & Israel was [defeated] & every man fled to his tent. And there was a very [large] slaughter; for 30,000 footmen of Israel fell there.] |
And I will cast you out of My sight, [like] I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole [family] of Ephraim. Therefore, [don't] pray for this people & neither lift up [an out] cry, nor [prayers] for them. Neither make [prayers on their behalf] to Me: for I won't hear you. |
[Exodus 32:8-10 They have turned [astray] quickly [from] the [ways that] I have commanded them. They have made [themselves] a [molded] calf & have worshiped it & have sacrificed [to it] & said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, [that] have brought you up out of the land of Egypt. |
And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people & [look,] it is a stiffnecked, [a.k.a. stubborn] people. Therefore, now leave Me alone, [so] that My wrath may [grow] hot against them & I might consume them. And I will make a great nation of you.] |
[Don't] you see what they do in the cities of Judah & in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood & the fathers [start] the fire & the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven & to pour out drink offerings to other gods, [so] that they may provoke Me to anger. |
The Lord says, Do they provoke Me to anger? Don't they provoke themselves to the [shame on] their own faces? Therefore, the Lord God says [this; Look,] My anger & My fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon: man, [animals,] trees of the field & the fruit of the ground. |
And it shall burn & shall not be [put out.] The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says [this;] Put your burnt offerings [with] your sacrifices & eat [meat.] [Amos 5:25-27 Have you offered to Me sacrifices & offerings in the wilderness 40 years, O house of Israel? |
But you have [carried] the tabernacle of your: Molock, Chiun, your images & the star of your [gods,] which you made [for] yourselves. Therefore, I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the Lord, Whose Name is The God of Hosts.] |
For I [didn't speak] to your [forefathers,] nor command them [on] the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt [about] burnt offerings or sacrifices. But [I] commanded them this thing, sayings, Obey My voice & I will be your God & you shall be My people. And you [follow] in all the ways that I have commanded you, [so] that it may [go] well [for] you. |
But they [didn't pay attention,] nor [leaned] their ear, but [followed] in the [advice] & the imagination of their evil heart & went backward & not forward. Since the day that your [forefathers] came [foreword] out of the land of Egypt, [until] this day, I have even sent to you all My servants, the prophets, daily rising up early [to warn] & sending them. |
[Still,] they [didn't pay attention] to Me, nor [did they lean] their ear, but [stubbornly] hardened their neck & they did worse than their [forefathers.] [Matthew 23:37-39 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you, [who] kill the prophets & stone [those who] are sent to you. |
How often I would have gathered your children together, even [like] a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, & you wouldn't! [Look,] your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you, You shall not see Me, [from now on, until] you shall say, Blessed is He, [Who] comes in the Name of the Lord.] |
Therefore, you shall speak all these words to them; but they won't [listen] to you. You shall also call to them, but they won't answer you. But you shall say to them, This is a nation that [doesn't] obey the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction & truth [has] perished & [truth] is cut off from their mouth. |
[Revelation 3:9-13 [See,] I will make [those] of the synagogue of Satan, [who] say they are Jews & aren't, but lie; I will make them come & worship [in front of] your feet & to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My Word [with] patience. |
I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to [test those who] dwell upon the earth. [Watch,] I come quickly & hold [tight to what] you have, [so] that no man takes your crown. |
I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, [for those who] overcome & he shall no [longer] go out & I will write upon him the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem, [that] comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write upon him, My new Name.] |
Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem & [throw] it away & take up [mourning] on high places; for the Lord has rejected & [abandoned] the generation of His wrath. For the children [people] of Judah have done evil in My sight, says the Lord. They have [put] their abominations in the house, which is called by My Name, to [defile] it. |
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons & their daughters in the fire; [that] I [didn't] command them, neither [did] it come into My heart. |
Therefore, [watch,] the days come, says the Lord, that it shall no [longer] be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Tophet, [until there's] no place [remaining.] |
And the [corpses] of this people shall be meat for the [birds] of heaven & for the [animals] of the earth. And none shall [frighten] them away. Then, I will cause the [sound] of [happiness] & gladness to cease [from] the bridegroom & the bride, from the cities of Judah & the streets of Jerusalem. For the land shall be desolate. |
[Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall no [longer] shine at all in you. And the voice of the bridegroom & the bride, shall no [longer] be heard at all in you. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, [but] by your sorceries, all nations were deceived.] |