24:007:021 Thus saith the lord of hosts, the
God of Israel; Put your
burnt
offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
24:007:022 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor
commanded them in the
day
that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning
burnt
offerings or sacrifices:
24:007:023 But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I
will
be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk
ye in
all
the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be
well
unto
you.
24:007:024 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.
24:007:025 Since the day that your fathers came forth
out of the land of
Egypt
unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants
the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
24:007:026 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but
hardened
their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
24:007:027 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.
24:007:028 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a
nation that obeyeth
not
the voice of the lord their God, nor receiveth
correction:
truth
is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
24:007:029 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast
it away, and take up
a
lamentation on high places; for the lord hath
rejected and
forsaken
the generation of his wrath.
24:007:030 For the children of Judah have done evil
in my sight, saith
the
lord: they have set their abominations in
the house which
is
called by my name, to pollute it.
24:007:031 And they have built the high places of
Tophet, which is in the
valley
of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
daughters
in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither
came
it into my heart.
24:007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
the lord, that it
shall
no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son
of
Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury
in
Tophet,
till there be no place.
24:007:033 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.
24:007:034 Then will I cause 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 be desolate.


