28 You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that (A)did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; [a](B)truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

29 (C)Cut off [b]your hair and cast it away,
And (D)take up a lamentation on the bare heights;
For the Lord has (E)rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

30 For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have (F)set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:28 Lit faithfulness
  2. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit your crown