💧WEB · Jeremiah 7:17

What does Jeremiah 7:17 mean?

"Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?"

— Jeremiah 7:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

14

therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

15

I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.

16

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

17

Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

19

Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

20

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”

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