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Jeremiah 32:34

New American Bible - revised edition

Instead they set up their abominations in the house which bears my name in order to defile it.

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Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

From the house of the Lord he also removed the Asherah to the Wadi Kidron, outside Jerusalem; he burned it and beat it to dust, in the Wadi Kidron, and scattered its dust over the graveyard of the people of the land.

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s house and all the altars he had built on the mount of the Lord’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them outside the city.

Likewise all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added treachery to treachery, practicing all the abominations of the nations and defiling the Lord’s house which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. The Fall of Judah.

All because they have forsaken me and profaned this place by burning incense to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors knew; and because the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,

Both prophet and priest are godless! In my very house I find their wickedness— oracle of the Lord.

All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not seek you out. I struck you as an enemy would strike, punishing you cruelly.

As for you, today you repented and did what is right in my eyes by proclaiming freedom for your neighbor and making a covenant before me in the house which bears my name.

Though I repeatedly sent you all my servants the prophets, saying: “You must not commit this abominable deed I hate,”

and then come and stand in my presence in this house, which bears my name, and say: “We are safe! We can commit all these abominations again!”?

The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes—oracle of the Lord. They have set up their detestable things in the house which bears my name, thereby defiling it.

In the Valley of Ben-hinnom they go on building the high places of Topheth to sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire, something I never commanded or considered.




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