Jeremiah 7:12-20

New International Version

¹² “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(A) where I first made a dwelling^(B) for my Name,^(C) and see what I did^(D) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³ While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke^(E) to you again and again,^(F) but you did not listen;^(G) I called^(H) you, but you did not answer.^{(I) 14} Therefore, what I did to Shiloh^(J) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,^(K) the temple^(L) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. ¹⁵ I will thrust you from my presence,^(M) just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’^(N)

¹⁶ “So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea^(O) or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen^(P) to you. ¹⁷ Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven.^(Q) They pour out drink offerings^(R) to other gods to arouse^(S) my anger. ¹⁹ But am I the one they are provoking?^(T) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?^(U)

²⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign^(V) Lord says: My anger^(W) and my wrath will be poured^(X) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.^(Y)