Jeremiah 7 - Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952(RSV-C)

1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

2“Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord.

3Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place.

4Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

5“For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,

6if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

7then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.

8“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.

9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

10and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?

11 of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

32Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.

33And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away.

34Rev 18.23. And I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.