so I also will choose harsh treatment for them
    and will bring on them what they dread.(A)
For when I called, no one answered,(B)
    when I spoke, no one listened.
They did evil(C) in my sight
    and chose what displeases me.”(D)

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I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

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So will I choose their delusions,
And bring their fears on them;
(A)Because, when I called, no one answered,
When I spoke they did not hear;
But they did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight.”

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“If you, Israel, will return,(A)
    then return to me,”
declares the Lord.
“If you put your detestable idols(B) out of my sight
    and no longer go astray,

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If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

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Jeremiah Laments over Judah

“If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord,
(A)“Return to Me;
And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight,
Then you shall not be moved.

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The Valley of Slaughter

30 “‘The people of Judah have done evil(A) in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols(B) in the house that bears my Name and have defiled(C) it.

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30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

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30 For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord. (A)“They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to [a]pollute it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:30 defile

11 “Both prophet and priest are godless;(A)
    even in my temple(B) I find their wickedness,”
declares the Lord.

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11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

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11 “For (A)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, (B)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.

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34 They set up their vile images(A) in the house that bears my Name(B) and defiled(C) it.

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34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

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34 But they (A)set their abominations in [a]the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:34 The temple

39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated(A) it. That is what they did in my house.(B)

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39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

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39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (A)thus they have done in the midst of My house.

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