7:1 The word that came to YirmeYahu from YHWH (יהוה), saying:
7:2 Stand in the gate of YHWH (יהוה)'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear DvarYHWH (יהוה), all [ye of] Yehudah, that enter in at these gates to worship YHWH (יהוה).
7:3 Thus saith YHWH (יהוה) Tzva'ot, Elohei Yisrael:
"Amend your darkhei (ways) and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying: "The temple of YHWH (יהוה), The temple of YHWH (יהוה), The temple of YHWH (יהוה), [are] these.
7:5 For if ye throughly amend your darkhei (ways) and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
7:6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to avoteichem, le olam vaed.
7:8 Hinneh, ye trust in lying Divrei, that cannot profit.
7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto ba'al, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
7:10 And come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
7:11 Is this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Hinnei, even I have seen [it], saith YHWH (יהוה).
7:12 But go ye now unto My place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of My people Yisrael.
7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith YHWH (יהוה), and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
7:14 Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by My name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to avoteichem, as I have done to Shiloh.
7:15 And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Efrayim.
7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Yehudah and in the streets of YeruShalayim?
7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.
7:19 Do they provoke Me to anger? saith YHWH (יהוה): [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
7:20 Therefore thus saith Adonay YHWH (יהוה):
Hinnei, Mine anger and My fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
7:21 Thus saith YHWH (יהוה) Tzva'ot, Elohei Yisrael:
"Put your Olot unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
7:22 For I spake not unto avoteichem, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim, concerning Olot or sacrifices:
7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be Eloheinu, and ye shall be My people: and walk ye in all the darkhei (ways) that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
7:25 Since the day that avoteichem came forth out of the Eretz Mitzrayim unto this day I have even sent unto you all My avadim Nevi'im, daily rising up early and sending [them]:
7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of YHWH (יהוה) Eloheihem, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
7:29 Cut off thine hair, [O YeruShalayim], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on shephi (high places); for YHWH (יהוה) hath rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.
7:30 For benai Yehudah have done evil in My sight, saith YHWH (יהוה): they have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.
7:31 And they have built the shephi (high places) of Tophet, which [is] in the Gey Ben Hinnom, to burn their banim and their banot in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into My heart.
7:32 Therefore, Hinnei, the days come, saith YHWH (יהוה), that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of Ben Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray [them] away.
7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Yehudah, and from the streets of YeruShalayim, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna in Greek) Place of fire
Tophet was the name of certain high places built in the Valley of the son of Hinnom, just south of Yerushalayim, on which human sacrifices were offered. From the horror of the fires of its idolatrous rites, and its pollution by Yoshiyahu,the valley became a symbol of great burning in connection in sin.