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28 You will say to them, ‘This is the nation that wouldn’t listen to the voice[a] of the Lord its God and wouldn’t accept correction. Truth has perished; it has been eliminated from their discussions.’

29 “Cut off your hair and throw it away;
    let your lamentations rise on the barren heights,
because the Lord has rejected and abandoned
    the generation that is subject to his wrath.[b]

30 “For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes,” declares the Lord. “They have put their detestable idols[c] in the house that is called by my name in order to defile it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:28 I.e. wouldn’t obey
  2. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit. generation of his wrath
  3. Jeremiah 7:30 Lit. their detestable things