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Словото, което дойде към Еремия от Господа, казвайки:

Застани в портата на дома Господен Та възгласи там това слово, като кажеш: Слушайте словото Господно, всички юдейци, Които влизате през тези порти за да се преклоните Господу.

Така казва Господ на Силите, Израилевият Бог: Поправете пътищата си и делата си, И Аз ще ви утвърдя на това място.

Не уповавайте на лъжливи думи та да казвате: Храмът Господен, храмът Господен, Храмът Господен е това.

Защото ако наистина поправите пътищата си и делата си; Ако съдите съвършено право между човека и ближния му;

Ако не угнетявате чужденеца, сирачето и вдовицата, И не проливате невинна кръв на това място, Нито следвате чужди богове за ваша повреда;

Тогава ще ви направя да живеете на това място, В земята, която дадох на бащите ви от века и до века.

Ето, вие уповавате на лъжливи думи, От които няма да се ползувате.

Като крадете, убивате, прелюбодействувате, И се кълнете лъжливо и кадите на Ваала, И следвате други богове, които не сте познавали.

10 Дохождате ли <после> да стоите пред Мене в тоя дом, Който се нарича с Моето име, И да казвате: Отървахме се, - за да вършите всички тия мерзости?

11 Тоя дом, който се нарича с Моето име, Вертеп ли за разбойници стана във вашите очи? Ето, сам Аз видях това, казва Господ.

12 Но идете сега на мястото Ми, което бе в Сило, Гдето в начало настаних името Си, Та вижте що му сторих Поради злодеянието на людете Си Израиля.

13 И сега понеже извършихте всички тия дела, казва Господ, И Аз ви говорих, като ставах рано и говорех, а вие не послушахте, И ви виках, но не отговорихте;

14 Затова ще направя на дома, който се нарича с Моето име, На който вие уповавате, И на мястото, което дадох вам и на бащите ви, Както направих на Сило.

15 И ще ви отхвърля от лицето Си Както отхвърлих всичките ви братя, Цялото Ефремово потомство.

16 Затова ти недей се моли за тия люде, И не възнасяй вик или молба за тях, Нито ходатайствувай пред Мене; Защото няма да те послушам.

17 Не видиш ли що вършат те в Юдовите градове И по ерусалимските улици;

18 Чадата събират дърва, и бащите кладат огъня, А жените месят тестото, За да направят пити на небесната царица, И да направят възлияния на други богове, Та да Ме разгневят.

19 <Но> Мене ли разгневяват? казва Господ, - <Дали> не себе си <разгневяват> за посрамяване на своите лица?

20 Затова, така казва Господ Иеова: Ето, гневът Ми и яростта Ми ще се излеят на това място, На човек и на животно. На полските дървета и на земния плод; И ще пламне, и няма да угасне.

21 Така казва Господ на Силите, Израилевият Бог: Притурете всеизгарянията си на жертвите си, И яжте месото <и от тях>.

22 Защото не говорих на бащите ви, нито им дадох заповеди, За всеизгаряния и жертви В деня, когато ги изведох из Египетската земя;

23 Но това им заповядах като рекох: Слушайте гласа Ми, И Аз ще ви бъда Бог, И вие ще Ми бъдете люде! И ходете по всичките пътища, които ви заповядам, За да благоденствувате.

24 Те, обаче, не послушаха нито преклониха ухото си, Но ходиха по намеренията и по упоритостта на своето нечестиво сърце, И отидоха назад, а не напред.

25 От деня, когато излязоха бащите ви из Египетската земя, до днес Пращах всичките Си слуги пророците при вас, Като ставах рано всеки ден и ги пращах;

26 Те, обаче, не Ме послушаха, нито преклониха ухото си, Но закоравиха врата си; Постъпиха по-зле от бащите си.

27 Затова говори им всички тия думи, Но те няма да те послушат; Тоже извикай към тях, Но те не ще ти отговорят.

28 Тогава им кажи: Тоя е народът, който не слуша гласа на Господа своя Бог, Нито приема наставления; Честността изчезна и се изгуби от устата им.

29 Острижи косата си, <дъщерьо ерусалимска>, и хвърли я, И плачи със силен глас по голите височини; Защото Господ отхвърли и остави поколението, на което се разгневи.

30 Защото юдейците сториха това, което бе зло пред Мене, казва Господ; Поставиха мерзостите си в дома, Който се нарича с Моето име та го оскверниха.

31 И издигнаха високите места на Тофет, Който е в долината на Еномовия син, За да горят синовете си и дъщерите си в огън, - Нещо, което не съм заповядал, нито Ми е дохождало на ум {Еврейски: Сърце.}.

32 Затова, ето, идат дни, казва Господ, Когато няма да се нарича вече Тофет, Нито долина на Еномовия син, Но долина на клането; Защото ще погребват в Тофет понеже не ще остане място <другаде>;

33 И труповете на тия люде ще бъдат Храна на небесните птици и на земните зверове И не ще има кой да ги плаши.

34 Тогава ще направя да престане в Юдовите градове И по ерусалимските улици Гласът на радостта и гласът на веселието, Гласът на младоженеца и гласът на невестата; Защото земята ще запустее.

False Trust in the Temple

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord(A) and there call out this word: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.

“‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your actions,(B) and I will allow you to live in this place. Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.” Instead, if you really correct your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,[a](C) if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow(D) and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves, I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors(E) long ago and forever. But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

“‘Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?(F) 10 Then do you come and stand before me in this house(G) that bears my name and say, “We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts”? 11 Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers(H) in your view? Yes, I too have seen it.(I)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Shiloh as a Warning

12 “‘But return to my place that was at Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first.(J) See what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. 13 Now, because you have done all these things—this is the Lord’s declaration—and because I have spoken to you time and time again[b] but you wouldn’t listen,(K) and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,(L) 14 what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that bears my name,(M) the house in which you trust, the place that I gave you and your ancestors. 15 I will banish you from my presence, just as I banished all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.’(N)

Do Not Pray for Judah

16 “As for you, do not pray for these people.(O) Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg me,(P) for I will not listen to you.(Q) 17 Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven,[c](R) and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke me to anger. 19 But are they really provoking me?” (S) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”

20 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Look, my anger—my burning wrath—is about to be poured out on this place,(T) on people and animals, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”(U)

Obedience over Sacrifice

21 This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,(V) 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them(W) or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice. 23 However, I did give them this command: ‘Obey me, and then I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.’(X) 24 Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention(Y) but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.(Z) 25 Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until today, I have sent all my servants the prophets(AA) to you time and time again.[d](AB) 26 However, my people wouldn’t listen to me or pay attention but became obstinate;(AC) they did more evil than their ancestors.(AD)

A Lament for Disobedient Judah

27 “When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you. 28 Therefore, declare to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth[e] has perished—it has disappeared from their mouths. 29 Cut off the hair of your sacred vow[f](AE) and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,(AF) for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.’(AG)

30 “For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things(AH) in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.(AI) 31 They have built the high places of Topheth[g](AJ) in Ben Hinnom Valley[h](AK) in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,(AL) a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

32 “Therefore, look, the days are coming”(AM)—the Lord’s declaration—“when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.(AN) Topheth will become a cemetery,[i] because there will be no other burial place. 33 The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.(AO) 34 I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride,(AP) for the land will become a desolate waste.(AQ)

Footnotes

  1. 7:5 Lit justly between a man and his neighbor
  2. 7:13 Lit you rising early and speaking
  3. 7:18 = a pagan goddess
  4. 7:25 Lit you, each day rising early and sending
  5. 7:28 Or Faithfulness
  6. 7:29 Lit off your consecration
  7. 7:31 Lit of the fireplace
  8. 7:31 A valley south of Jerusalem
  9. 7:32 Lit They will bury in Topheth

False Religion Worthless

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Stand(A) at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message:

“‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways(B) and your actions, and I will let you live(C) in this place. Do not trust(D) in deceptive(E) words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” If you really change(F) your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,(G) if you do not oppress(H) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood(I) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods(J) to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land(K) I gave your ancestors(L) for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting(M) in deceptive(N) words that are worthless.

“‘Will you steal(O) and murder,(P) commit adultery(Q) and perjury,[a](R) burn incense to Baal(S) and follow other gods(T) you have not known, 10 and then come and stand(U) before me in this house,(V) which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?(W) 11 Has this house,(X) which bears my Name, become a den of robbers(Y) to you? But I have been watching!(Z) declares the Lord.

12 “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh(AA) where I first made a dwelling(AB) for my Name,(AC) and see what I did(AD) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke(AE) to you again and again,(AF) but you did not listen;(AG) I called(AH) you, but you did not answer.(AI) 14 Therefore, what I did to Shiloh(AJ) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,(AK) the temple(AL) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. 15 I will thrust you from my presence,(AM) just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’(AN)

16 “So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea(AO) or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen(AP) to you. 17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven.(AQ) They pour out drink offerings(AR) to other gods to arouse(AS) my anger. 19 But am I the one they are provoking?(AT) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?(AU)

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(AV) Lord says: My anger(AW) and my wrath will be poured(AX) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.(AY)

21 “‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices(AZ) and eat(BA) the meat yourselves! 22 For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands(BB) about burnt offerings and sacrifices,(BC) 23 but I gave them this command:(BD) Obey(BE) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.(BF) Walk in obedience to all(BG) I command you, that it may go well(BH) with you. 24 But they did not listen(BI) or pay attention;(BJ) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(BK) They went backward(BL) and not forward. 25 From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again(BM) I sent you my servants(BN) the prophets.(BO) 26 But they did not listen to me or pay attention.(BP) They were stiff-necked(BQ) and did more evil than their ancestors.’(BR)

27 “When you tell(BS) them all this, they will not listen(BT) to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.(BU) 28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.(BV) Truth(BW) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

29 “‘Cut off(BX) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament(BY) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned(BZ) this generation that is under his wrath.

The Valley of Slaughter

30 “‘The people of Judah have done evil(CA) in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols(CB) in the house that bears my Name and have defiled(CC) it. 31 They have built the high places of Topheth(CD) in the Valley of Ben Hinnom(CE) to burn their sons and daughters(CF) in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.(CG) 32 So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter,(CH) for they will bury(CI) the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. 33 Then the carcasses(CJ) of this people will become food(CK) for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(CL) 34 I will bring an end to the sounds(CM) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom(CN) in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem,(CO) for the land will become desolate.(CP)

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:9 Or and swear by false gods

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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.

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.

Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

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:

Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

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?

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.

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.

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;

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.

15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

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.

17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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.

19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

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.

21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

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:

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.

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.

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:

26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.