Jeremiah 7:18
7:18 Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven.
They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just
to trouble me.
Jeremiah 7:2
7:2 “Stand in the gate of the
Lord’s temple and proclaim
this message: ‘Listen, all you people of Judah who have passed through these gates to worship the
Lord.
Hear what the
Lord has to say.
Jeremiah 17:16
17:16 But I have not pestered you to bring disaster.
I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation.
You know that.
You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.