13. While you have been sinning, I have been trying to talk to you, but you refuse to listen.
14. Don't think this temple will protect you. Long ago I told your ancestors to build it and worship me here, but now I have decided to tear it down, just as I destroyed Shiloh.
15. And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.
16. Jeremiah, don't pray for these people! I, the Lord, would refuse to listen.
17. Do you see what the people of Judah are doing in their towns and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.
19. But they are not only insulting me; they are also insulting themselves by doing these shameful things.