Jeremiah 7:16-20

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁶ “As for you, ^(A)do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. ¹⁷ Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸ The ^[a]children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they ^(B)pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to ^(C)spite Me. ^19 (D)Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to ^[b]their own ^(E)shame?” ²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord ^[c]God, “Behold, My ^(F)anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the ^(G)trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”