13. Now, because you have done all these things” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,
14. what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name — the house in which you trust — the place that I gave you and your ancestors.
15. I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16. “As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
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, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger.
19. But are they really provoking Me? ” 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, on man and beast, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”
21. This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,
22. for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
23. However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.
24. Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
25. Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets to you time and time again.
26. However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
27. “When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.
28. You must therefore declare to them: This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth has perished — it has disappeared from their mouths.
29. Cut off the hair of your sacred vow and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath.
30. “For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.
31. They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.