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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.[a]

30 “For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes,” declares the Lord. “They have put their detestable idols[b] in the house that is called by my name in order to defile it. 31 They have built high places at Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire. I didn’t command this, and it never entered my mind!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit. generation of his wrath
  2. Jeremiah 7:30 Lit. their detestable things