18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women kneed the dough to make cakes to [a]the Queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me unto anger.

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

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured upon this place; upon man and upon beast, and upon the tree of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground, and it shall burn and not be quenched.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:18 That is, they sacrifice to the Sun, Moon and Stars, which they called the queen of heaven, Jer. 44:17; 2 Kings 23:5.

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.(A) They pour out drink offerings(B) to other gods to arouse(C) my anger. 19 But am I the one they are provoking?(D) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?(E)

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(F) Lord says: My anger(G) and my wrath will be poured(H) 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.(I)

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