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Jeremiah 7:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Jeremiah 7:17

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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 the LORD. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

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Jeremiah 44:21

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"“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t the LORD remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?"

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Jeremiah 11:12

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"For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory."

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2 Chronicles 29:8

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"Therefore the LORD’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment and a hissing, as you see with your eyes."

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Judith 3:4

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"Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”"

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Lamentations 2:15

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"All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”"

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Jeremiah 7:1

"The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"

Jeremiah 7:2

"“Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.’”"

Jeremiah 7:3

"The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place."

Jeremiah 7:4

"Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, are these.’"

Jeremiah 7:5

"For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;"

Jeremiah 7:6

"if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,"

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