Jeremías 7:25-34

25 Desde el día que vuestros padres salieron de la tierra de Egipto hasta hoy, os he enviado a todos mis siervos los profetas, madrugando cada día y enviándolos.

26 Pero no me escucharon ni inclinaron su oído, sino que endurecieron su cerviz e hicieron peor que sus padres.

27 Les dirás, pues, todas estas palabras, mas no te escucharán; los llamarás, y no te responderán.

28 Entonces les dirás: "Esta es la nación que no escuchó la voz del SEÑOR su Dios, ni aceptó corrección; ha perecido la verdad, ha sido cortada de su boca.

29 "Córtate el cabello y tíralo, y entona una endecha en las alturas desoladas; porque el SEÑOR ha desechado y abandonado a la generación objeto de su furor."

30 Porque los hijos de Judá han hecho lo que es malo ante mis ojosdeclara el SEÑOR, han puesto sus abominaciones en la casa que es llamada por mi nombre, profanándola.

31 Y han edificado los lugares altos de Tofet, que está en el valle de Ben-hinom, para quemar a sus hijos y a sus hijas en el fuego, lo cual yo no mandé, ni me pasó por la mente.

32 Por tanto, he aquí vienen díasdeclara el SEÑORcuando no se dirá más Tofet, ni valle de Ben-hinom, sino el valle de la Matanza; porque enterrarán en Tofet por no haber otro lugar.

33 Y los cadáveres de este pueblo servirán de comida para las aves del cielo y para las bestias de la tierra, sin que nadie las espante.

34 Entonces haré cesar de las ciudades de Judá y de las calles de Jerusalén la voz de gozo y la voz de alegría, la voz del novio y la voz de la novia; porque la tierra quedará desolada.

Jeremías 7:25-34 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.