2 GLT “Stand at the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word! And you shall say,‘Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, who enter these gates to bow down to Yahweh. BSB BSB: “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
3 GLT Thus says Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel: Make your ways and your deeds good, and I will cause you to settle in this place. BSB BSB: Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
4 GLT Do not entrust yourself to words of deceit, saying,“Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh{ are} they!” BSB BSB: Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
5 GLT For if you completely make your ways and your deeds good, if you completely do justice between a man and between his neighbor— BSB BSB: For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
6 GLT if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless one, or the widow and do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and do not walk after other gods to your harm— BSB BSB: if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
7 GLT then I will cause you to settle in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from ancient times and to eternity. BSB BSB: then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
8 GLT Behold! You entrust yourself in words of deceit to no profit. BSB BSB: But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
9 GLT Are{ you} stealing, murdering, and committing adultery and swearing for deceit and offering incense to Baal and walking after other gods whom you have not known, BSB BSB: Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
10 GLT then you come and stand before my face in this house over which my name is called and say,“We are saved,” in order to do all of these abominations? BSB BSB: and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
12 GLT But go, please, to my place that{ was} in Shiloh, there where I settled my name in the beginning, and see what I did to it from the face of the evil of my people Israel. BSB BSB: But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
13 GLT So now, on account of your doing all of these deeds— the declaration of Yahweh— and I spoke to you rising early and speaking, but you did not listen. And I called you, but you did not answer. BSB BSB: And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
14 GLT And I shall do to this house over which my name is called, the house in which you have trusted, and this place that I gave to you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. BSB BSB: therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
15 GLT And I shall cast you out from my face just as I cast out all your brothers, all the seed of Ephraim.’ BSB BSB: And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16 GLT And you, do not pray on behalf of this people, and do not lift up a wail or a prayer on their behalf, and do not plead with me, for I shall not hear you. BSB BSB: As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
17 GLT Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? BSB BSB: Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 GLT The sons are collecting wood and the fathers kindling the fire, and the women are kneading dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens and pour out drink offerings for other gods in order to provoke me to anger! BSB BSB: The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
19 GLT Are they provoking me to anger?— the declaration of Yahweh—{ is it} not them, in order to shame their faces? BSB BSB: But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
20 GLT Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh,‘Behold, my nose and my heat will gush out onto this place— on man and on beast and on the tree of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be extinguished.’ BSB BSB: Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
21 GLT Thus says Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel,‘Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. BSB BSB: This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
22 GLT For I did not speak with your ancestors and I did not command them on the day I brought them out from the land of Egypt concerning matters of burnt offering and sacrifice. BSB BSB: For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
23 GLT Except I commanded them this word, saying,“Listen to my voice, and I will be your God and you will be my people. So walk in every way that I am commanding you so that it may go well for you.” BSB BSB: but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
24 GLT But they did not listen and they did not incline their ear. And they walked by schemes in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they went to the back and not to the face. BSB BSB: Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
25 GLT From the day when your fathers went out from the land of Egypt until this day, then I have sent all of my servants, my prophets, to you;{ each} day rising early and sending. BSB BSB: From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
26 GLT But they did not listen to me, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck. They were more wicked than their fathers.’ BSB BSB: Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
27 GLT So you will speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. And you will call out to them, but they will not answer. BSB BSB: When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
28 GLT And you will say to them: This{ is} the nation that does not listen to the voice of Yahweh its God and does not receive discipline. Honesty is lost and cut off from their mouth. BSB BSB: Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
29 GLT Shear your consecration{ hair} and throw{ it} away. And lift up on the bare heights a funeral song. For Yahweh has rejected and abandoned the generation of his rage. BSB BSB: Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
32 GLT Therefore behold, days are coming— the declaration of Yahweh— and it will no longer be called Topheth or Valley of Ben Hinnom, instead, the Valley of Slaughter. And they will bury in Topheth because there is no room. BSB BSB: So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
33 GLT And the corpses of this people will be for food for the bird of the skies and for the beast of the earth, and there will be none to startle{ them}. BSB BSB: The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
34 GLT And I shall cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem: the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be for a desolation.” BSB BSB: I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
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