Jeremiah 7:29-31

The Message

²⁹“‘So shave your heads.
Go bald to the hills and lament,
For God has rejected and left
this generation that has made him so angry.’

^30-31“The people of Judah have lived evil lives while I’ve stood by and watched.” God’s Decree. “In deliberate insult to me, they’ve set up their obscene god-images in the very Temple that was built to honor me. They’ve constructed Topheth altars for burning babies in prominent places all through the valley of Ben-hinnom, altars for burning their sons and daughters alive in the fire—a shocking perversion of all that I am and all I command.

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