Jeremia 7:27-34

27 Und wenn du alle diese Worte zu ihnen redest, so werden sie nicht auf dich hören; und rufst du ihnen zu, so werden sie dir nicht antworten.

28 So sprich denn zu ihnen: Dies ist das Volk, welches auf die Stimme Jehovas, seines Gottes, nicht hört und keine Zucht annimmt; die Treue ist untergegangen und ist ausgerottet aus ihrem Munde.

29 Schere deinen Haarschmuck und wirf ihn weg, und erhebe ein Klagelied auf den kahlen Höhen: Denn Jehova hat das Geschlecht seines Grimmes verworfen und verstoßen.

30 Denn die Kinder Juda haben getan, was böse ist in meinen Augen, spricht Jehova; sie haben ihre Scheusale in das Haus gestellt, welches nach meinem Namen genannt ist, um es zu verunreinigen.

31 Und sie haben die Höhen des Topheth gebaut, welches im Tale des Sohnes Hinnoms ist, um ihre Söhne und ihre Töchter im Feuer zu verbrennen, was ich nicht geboten habe und mir nicht in den Sinn gekommen ist.

32 Darum siehe, Tage kommen, spricht Jehova, da man nicht mehr Topheth, noch Tal des Sohnes Hinnoms, sondern Würgetal sagen wird; man wird im Topheth begraben aus Mangel an Raum.

33 Und die Leichname dieses Volkes werden dem Gevögel des Himmels und den Tieren der Erde zur Speise sein, und niemand wird sie wegscheuchen.

34 Und ich werde in den Städten Judas und auf den Straßen von Jerusalem aufhören lassen die Stimme der Wonne und die Stimme der Freude, die Stimme des Bräutigams und die Stimme der Braut; denn das Land soll zur Einöde werden.

Jeremia 7:27-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 7

In this chapter the Lord, by the prophet, calls the people of the Jews to repentance and reformation; reproves them for their vain confidence; and threatens them with destruction for their many sins, and particularly idolatry. The preface to all this is in Jer 7:1,2, the exhortation to amendment, encouraged to by a promise that they should dwell in the land, is in Jer 7:3, but this was not to be expected on account of the temple, and temple service; but through a thorough reformation of manners; an exercise of justice, and avoiding all oppression and idolatry, Jer 7:4-7, their vain confidence in the temple is exposed; they fancying that their standing there, and doing the service of it, would atone for their theft, murder, adultery, perjury, and idolatry; and that they might commit these with impunity; wherefore they are let to know, that so doing these they made the temple a house of thieves; and that for such wickedness, what the Lord had done to his place in Shiloh, which they are reminded of, he would to the temple, and to them, reject and cast them off, Jer 6:8-15, and seeing they also had a dependence on the prophet's prayer, he is bid not to pray for them, for his prayers would not he heard; and he is directed to observe their wretched idolatry, of which an instance is given, whereby they provoked the Lord to anger; and therefore he was determined to pour out his fury on man and beast, and on the trees and fruit of the field, Jer 7:16-20 and whereas they trusted in their burnt offerings and sacrifices, these are rejected, as being what were not originally commanded; but obedience to the moral law, and the precepts of it, which they refused to hearken to, though they were oft called upon to it by his servants the prophets, Jer 7:21-26, and it is foretold that the Prophet Jeremy would meet with the same treatment; that they would not hearken to his words, nor answer to his call; and therefore he should declare them a disobedient, incorrigible, and an unfaithful people, Jer 7:27,28 hence, either he, or Jerusalem, is called upon to cut off the hair, as a sign of mourning; for their rejection of the Lord, occasioned by their sins, and especially their idolatry, of which instances are given, Jer 7:29-31 and it is threatened that the place of their idolatry should be a place of slaughter and of burial, till there should be no room for more; and the carcasses of the rest should be the food of fowls and beasts; and all joy should cease from Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 7:32-34.