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"Stand in the gate of the LORD'Shouse and proclaimtherethisword and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter by thesegates to worship the LORD!' "
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"But gonow to My placewhich was in Shiloh, where* I made My namedwell at the first, and seewhat I did to it because* of the wickedness of My peopleIsrael.
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"And now, because you have doneallthesethings," declares the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,
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therefore, I will do to the housewhich is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the placewhich I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
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"The childrengatherwood, and the fatherskindle the fire, and the womenkneaddough to makecakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drinkofferings to othergods in order to spite Me.
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Thereforethussays the LordGOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on thisplace, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."
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"For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning*burntofferings and sacrifices.
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"But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the waywhich I command you, that it may be well with you.'
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"Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evilheart, and wentbackward and not forward.
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"Since the day that your fatherscame out of the land of Egyptuntilthisday, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, dailyrisingearly and sending them.
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"You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or acceptcorrection; truth has perished and has been cutoff from their mouth.
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'Cutoff your hair and cast it away, And take up a lamentation on the bareheights; For the LORD has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.'
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"For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight," declares the LORD, "they have set their detestablethings in the housewhich is called by My name, to defile it.
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"They have built the highplaces of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind.
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"Therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will nolonger be calledTopheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophethbecausethere is no other place.
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"Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.