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Jeremiah 7:19-21
EasyEnglish Bible
Jeremiah 7:19-21
EasyEnglish Bible
19 But they are not hurting me. They are hurting themselves, and they will be ashamed.’ That is what the Lord says.
20 The Lord God says, ‘Because I am so angry, I will punish this land very much. It will be like a fire that nobody can stop. My punishment will destroy people, animals, trees and crops.’
21 The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this to Judah's people: ‘You should eat the meat from your burnt offerings, as well as your other sacrifices. You are not offering them to me![a]
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- 7:21 The people should not eat meat from burnt offerings. See Leviticus 1:6-9. God is telling them that they are not obeying his laws at all. So their sacrifices were not important to him any more. The rules about sacrifices were no longer important.
Jeremiah 7:19-21
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Jeremiah 7:19-21
New International Version
19 But am I the one they are provoking?(A) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?(B)
20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(C) Lord says: My anger(D) and my wrath will be poured(E) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.(F)
21 “‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices(G) and eat(H) the meat yourselves!
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