25. From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day, I have kept on sending my servants, the prophets, to you.
26. Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.
27. “So, Jeremiah, you will speak all these words to my people, but they will not listen to you; you will call them, but they will not answer.
28. You will tell them that their nation does not obey me, the Lord their God, or learn from their punishment. Faithfulness is dead. No longer is it even talked about.
29. “Mourn, people of Jerusalem;cut off your hair and throw it away.Sing a funeral song on the hilltops,because I, the Lord, am angry,and have rejected my people.
30. “The people of Judah have done an evil thing. They have placed their idols, which I hate, in my Temple and have defiled it.
31. In the Valley of Hinnom they have built an altar called Topheth, so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire. I did not command them to do this — it did not even enter my mind.