Jeremiah 7:1-34 Thoroughly Change Your Ways & Actions & I Will Allow You to Live Here

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 that 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 temple of the Lord.

[Micah 3:10-11 They build up Zion with [bloodshed,] & [build up] Jerusalem with [sinfulness.] [It's leaders,] judge for reward, [a.k.a. bribes, its] priests teach for [pay,] & [its] prophets divine for money. Will they [still] 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 [carry out] judgment, [a.k.a. 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 walk, [a.k.a. 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 23:37-39 They have committed adultery, & [bloodshed] is [on] their hands, & they have committed adultery with their idols, & also have [made] their sons, whom they [bore] to Me, to pass through the fire, to devour them for [their idols.] [Additionally,] they have done this to Me. They  defiled My sanctuary [on] the same day, & have profaned My Sabbaths. For when they had [sacrificed] their children to their idols, then they came the same day, into My sanctuary to [desecrate] 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, & [delivered] 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 works, [a.k.a. 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 [had] sent to you all His servants, the prophets, rising early & sending them [to warn you,] but you haven't [paid attention,] nor [leaned] your ear to hear. They said, Everyone turn [yourselves] from his evil [ways,] & from your evil [actions,] & [live] in the land that the Lord [has] given to you, & to your [forefathers] forever & ever.

And [don't] go after other gods, & serve, & worship them. And [don't] provoke Me to anger with the works [made by] your hands, & I won't do you [any harm.] Yet, you haven't [paid attention] to Me, [says] the Lord, [so] that you might provoke Me to anger with the works [from] your hands, to your own [harm.]

Therefore, to the place [that] I gave to you, & to your [forefathers,] I will do to this house, [that] is called by My Name, [in which] you trust, [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 seed, [a.k.a. family,] of Ephraim. Therefore, [don't] you pray for this people, & neither lift up [an out] cry, nor [prayers] for them. Neither make intercession, [a.k.a. prayers on their behalf,] to Me: for I won't hear you.

[Exodus 32:8-10 They have turned [astray] quickly out of 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 stiff-necked, [a.k.a. stubborn,] people. Therefore, now let Me alone, [so] that My wrath may [grow] hot against them, & that I may 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 confusion, [a.k.a. 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 quenched, [a.k.a. put out.] The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, [says this;] Put your burnt offerings [with] your sacrifices, & eat flesh, [a.k.a. 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: Moloch, 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, saying, Obey My voice, & I will be your God, & you shall be My people. And you walk, [a.k.a. 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. [Deuteronomy 12:30-31 [Pay attention] to yourself, that you [aren't] snared, [a.k.a. trapped,] by following them, after they [are] destroyed from before you. And that you [don't inquire] after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so, I will do [similarly.] Thou [shall] not do so, to the Lord your God. For every abomination to the Lord, [that] He [hates,] they have done to their gods. For they have even burnt their: sons, & daughters in the fire to their gods.]

[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 [warn] you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even [like] a hen [gathers] her chickens under her wings, & you would not! [Look,] your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you, You shall not see Me [after this, 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 from] [Satan's] synagogue, [who] say they are Jews, & aren't, but lie, [see,] & I will make them come & worship [in front of] your feet, to know that I have loved you. Because you [have] kept the Word [of God,] [showing] My patience, I will also 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 My God, & 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, [a.k.a. 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. [2 Kings 17:16-18 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, & made [themselves molded] images, even 2 calves, & made a grove, & worshiped all the host, [a.k.a. stars, & constellations,] of heaven, & served Baal. And they caused their: sons & daughters to pass through the fire, & [they] used divination, & enchantments, & sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. Therefore, the Lord was very angry with Israel, & removed them out of His sight. There [were] none left, [except] only the tribe of Judah.]

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 in you, at all. And the voice of the bridegroom, & the bride, shall no [longer] be heard in you, at all. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, [but] by your sorceries, all nations were deceived.]