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Jeremiah 7:13-22 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and because I have spoken to you from your morning rising, and because I was speaking, but you were not listening, and because I have called you, but you have not responded:

14. I will do to this house, in which my name is invoked, and in which you have confidence, even to this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, just as I have done to Shiloh.

15. And I will cast you away from my face, just as I have cast away all your brothers, the entire offspring of Ephraim.

16. Therefore, you should not pray for this people, nor take up praise and supplication on their behalf. And you should not stand in opposition to me. For then I will not heed you.

17. Have you not seen what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18. The sons gather the wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the wives spread the grease, so as to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to offer libations to strange gods, and so as to provoke me to anger.

19. But are they provoking me to anger, says the Lord? Are they not provoking themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"

20. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: "Behold, my fury and my indignation is kindled against this place, over men and over beasts, and over the trees of the countryside and over the fruits of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished."

21. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your holocausts to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

22. For concerning the matter of holocausts and sacrifices, I did not speak with your fathers, and I did not instruct them, in the day when I led them away from the land of Egypt.

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