15And as for you, I''m going to get rid of you, the same as I got rid of those old relatives of yours around Shiloh, your fellow Israelites in that former kingdom to the north.''
16"And you, Jeremiah, don''t waste your time praying for this people. Don''t offer to make petitions or intercessions. Don''t bother me with them. I''m not listening.b
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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