Jeremiah 7:21-29

English Standard Version

²¹Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(A)“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. ²²For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them ^(B)concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. ²³But this command I gave them: ^(C)‘Obey my voice, and ^(D)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^(E)And walk in all the way that I command you, ^(F)that it may be well with you.’ ²⁴^(G)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(H)but walked in their own counsels and ^(I)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(J)went backward and not forward. ²⁵From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^(K)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. ²⁶^(L)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^(M)but stiffened their neck. ^(N)They did worse than their fathers.

²⁷^(O)“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. ^(P)You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. ²⁸And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; ^(Q)truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

²⁹^(R)“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;
raise a lamentation on ^(S)the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.’