Jeremiah 7:16-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The People’s Disobedience
16 As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.(A) 17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.(B) 19 Is it I whom they provoke? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own hurt?(C) 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.
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Jeremiah 7:16-20
Christian Standard Bible
Do Not Pray for Judah
16 “As for you, do not pray for these people.(A) Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg me,(B) for I will not listen to you.(C) 17 Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven,[a](D) and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke me to anger. 19 But are they really provoking me?” (E) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”
20 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Look, my anger—my burning wrath—is about to be poured out on this place,(F) on people and animals, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”(G)
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