and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you (A)kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold I am going to bring a (B)disaster upon this place, at which the (C)ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. Since they have (D)abandoned Me and have (E)made this place foreign, and have burned [a]sacrifices in it to (F)other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the (G)blood of the innocent and have built the (H)high places of Baal to burn their (I)sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My [b]mind;

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:4 Or incense
  2. Jeremiah 19:5 Lit heart

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