14. So what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that is called by my name. This is the place I gave to you and to your ancestors, the place where you feel so safe.
15. I will force you out of my sight as I forced out all your relatives, all of Ephraim’s descendants.’
16. “Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people. Don’t cry or pray for them. Don’t plead with me, because I will not listen to you.
17. Don’t you see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. Children gather wood, fathers light fires, and women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out wine offerings to other gods in order to make me furious.
19. They aren’t really provoking me,” declares the Lord. “But they are ⌊harming⌋ themselves to their own shame.