Jeremiah 7:24–34

²⁴“Yet they ^adid not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and ^1bwent backward and not forward.

²⁵“Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have ^asent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

²⁶“Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but ^astiffened their neck; they ^bdid more evil than their fathers.

²⁷“You shall ^aspeak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will ^bnot answer you.

²⁸“You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that ^adid not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; ^1btruth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

²⁹‘^aCut off ¹your hair and cast it away,

And ^btake up a lamentation on the bare heights;

For the Lord has ^crejected and forsaken

The generation of His wrath.’

³⁰“For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have ^aset their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

³¹“They have ^abuilt the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to ^bburn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I ^cdid not command, and it did not come into My ¹mind.

³²“^aTherefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will ^bbury in Topheth ¹because there is no other place.

³³“The ^adead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

³⁴“Then I will make to ^acease 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 ^bland will become a ruin.