29 Cut off the hair of your sacred vow[a](A) and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,(B) for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.’(C)

30 “For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things(D) in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.(E) 31 They have built the high places of Topheth[b](F) in Ben Hinnom Valley[c](G) in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,(H) a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:29 Lit off your consecration
  2. 7:31 Lit of the fireplace
  3. 7:31 A valley south of Jerusalem

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