Jeremías 7:1-9

1 Jeremías habla en el templo
El Señor
le dio otro mensaje a Jeremías diciendo:

2 «Vete a la entrada del templo del Señor
y dale el siguiente mensaje al pueblo: “Oh Judá, ¡escucha este mensaje del Señor
! ¡Escúchenlo, todos ustedes que aquí adoran al Señor
!

3 Esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales, Dios de Israel:
»“Incluso ahora, si abandonan sus malos caminos les permitiré quedarse en su propia tierra;

4 pero no se dejen engañar por los que les prometen seguridad simplemente porque aquí está el templo del Señor
. Ellos repiten: ‘¡El templo del Señor
está aquí! ¡El templo del Señor
está aquí!’.

5 Pero seré misericordioso únicamente si abandonan sus malos pensamientos y sus malas acciones, y comienzan a tratarse el uno al otro con justicia;

6 si dejan de explotar a los extranjeros, a los huérfanos y a las viudas; si dejan de asesinar; y si dejan de dañarse ustedes mismos al rendir culto a los ídolos.

7 Entonces, les permitiré quedarse en esta tierra que les di a sus antepasados para siempre.

8 »”No se dejen engañar ni crean que nunca tendrán que sufrir porque el templo está aquí. ¡Es una mentira!

9 ¿De verdad piensan que pueden robar, matar, cometer adulterio, mentir y quemar incienso a Baal y a los otros nuevos dioses que tienen,

Jeremías 7:1-9 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.