Jeremiah 7:21-26

Evangelical Heritage Version

Their Sacrifices Are Useless

²¹ This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says. Go ahead. Grab your burnt offerings, along with your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves! ²² When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I said nothing to them about burnt offerings and sacrifices. ²³ I gave them only this command: “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Walk entirely in the way I commanded you to walk, so that it may go well with you.” ²⁴ But they did not obey me or listen to me. They followed their own advice and the stubbornness of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. ²⁵ From the time your fathers left Egypt until today, I have sent all my servants, the prophets, to them again and again. ²⁶ But they did not obey me or listen to me. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their fathers.