13So now, because of the way you have lived and failed to listen, even though time and again I took you aside and talked seriously with you, and because you refused to change when I called you to repent,
Jeremiah 7 records the prophet’s famous “Temple Sermon,” a blistering indictment of empty religion. God sends Jeremiah to the gate of the temple in Jerusalem to confront a people who trust in the building itself rather than the God who dwells there. They chant “The temple of the
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