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Jeremiah 7:16-19 World English Bible (WEB)

16. “Therefore don’t pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

17. Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

19. Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

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