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A Prediction of Jerusalem’s Fall

26 Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 27 “I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me? 28 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I will hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 29 The Babylonians outside the walls will come in and set fire to the city. They will burn down all these houses where the people provoked my anger by burning incense to Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out liquid offerings to other gods. 30 Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. They have infuriated me with all their evil deeds,” says the Lord. 31 “From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.

32 “The sins of Israel and Judah—the sins of the people of Jerusalem, the kings, the officials, the priests, and the prophets—have stirred up my anger. 33 My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to return. Even though I diligently taught them, they would not receive instruction or obey. 34 They have set up their abominable idols right in my own Temple, defiling it. 35 They have built pagan shrines to Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing. What an incredible evil, causing Judah to sin so greatly!

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26 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, 27 “Behold, I am Yahweh, the (A)God of all flesh; is anything (B)too difficult for Me?” 28 Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to (C)give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 29 And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and (D)set this city on fire and burn it, with the (E)houses where people have burned incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger. 30 Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only (F)evil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only (G)provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares Yahweh. 31 “Indeed this city has been to Me a (H)provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be (I)removed from before My face 32 because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their (J)kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, (K)rising up early and teaching, they would not listen [a]and receive discipline. 34 But they (L)put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 35 And they built the (M)high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to (N)Molech, which I had not commanded them, nor had it come upon My heart that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:33 Lit to