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Jeremiah 7:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.

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“You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.

Nobody knew who you were until I, the LORD, chose you to be the leader of my people Israel. And now you're acting exactly like Jeroboam by causing the Israelites to sin. What you've done has made me so angry

but worshippers of other gods will have much sorrow. I refuse to offer sacrifices of blood to those gods or worship in their name.

Jerusalem and Judah, you rebelled against your glorious LORD— your words and your actions, made you stumble and fall.

You have chosen to worship idols made of stone; you have given them offerings of wine and grain. Should I be pleased?

What will I, the LORD, do if any of you reject me and my holy mountain? What will happen to you for offering food and wine to the gods you call “Good Luck” and “Fate”?

They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.

I will punish my people, because they are guilty of turning from me to worship idols.

I am the LORD All-Powerful. You people of Judah were like a tree that I had planted, but you have made me angry by offering sacrifices to Baal, just as the northern kingdom did. And now I'm going to pull you up by the roots.

One generation after another has set up pagan altars and worshipped the goddess Asherah everywhere in your country— on hills and mountains, and under large trees. So I'll take everything you own, including your altars, and give it all to your enemies.

But you refused to listen to my prophets. So I, the LORD, say that you have made me angry by worshipping idols, and you are the ones who were hurt by what you did.

The Babylonian army is already attacking, and they will capture the city and set it on fire. The people of Jerusalem have made me angry by going up to the flat roofs of their houses and burning incense to Baal and offering wine sacrifices to other gods. Now these houses will be burnt to the ground!

Time after time I sent my servants the prophets to tell the people of Judah how much I hated their disgusting sins. The prophets warned them to stop sinning,

Do you see what the people of Judah are doing in their towns and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Young men are forced to do the work of slaves; boys must carry heavy loads of wood.

To make me angry, you even offered yourself to Egyptians, who were always ready to sleep with you.

by offering sacrifices, incense, and wine to gods on every hill and under every large tree. I was very angry, because they did these things in the land I had given them!

I was then led into the temple's inner courtyard, where I saw about twenty-five men standing near the entrance, between the porch and the altar. Their backs were to the LORD's temple, and they were bowing down to the rising sun.

God said, “Ezekiel, it's bad enough that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things. But they have also spread violence and injustice everywhere in Israel and have made me very angry. They have disgraced and insulted me in the worst possible way.

We would make the Lord jealous if we did that. And we are not stronger than the Lord.

You made God jealous and angry by worshipping disgusting idols and foreign gods.

You worshipped worthless idols, and made me jealous and angry! Now I will send a cruel and worthless nation to make you jealous and angry.

And when you see the sun or moon or stars, don't be tempted to bow down and worship them. The LORD put them there for all the other nations to worship.




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