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29 Shear your hair and throw it[a] away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’ 30 For the people [b] of Judah have done evil in my eyes,” declares[c] Yahweh, “They have set their abominations in the house that is called by my name,[d] to defile it. 31 And they built the high place of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:29 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Jeremiah 7:30 Or “children”
  3. Jeremiah 7:30 Literally “a declaration of”
  4. Jeremiah 7:30 Literally “my name over it”
  5. Jeremiah 7:31 Or “heart”