Jeremiah 7:16-20

16“As for you, ado not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. 17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, band the women knead dough, to cmake cakes for dthe queen of heaven. And ethey pour out drink offerings to other gods, fto provoke me to anger. 19 gIs it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, hto their own shame? 20Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, imy anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; jit will burn and not be quenched.”

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