Jeremiah 7:19–27

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger?” says the LORD. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”↗

²⁰Therefore the Lord GOD says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”↗

²¹The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.↗

²²For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;↗

²³but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’↗

²⁴But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.↗

²⁵Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.↗

²⁶Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.↗

²⁷“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.↗