Jeremiah 7:18-22
Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to provoke Me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:19
Are they provoking Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves instead, to their own shame?”
Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on human and animal life, and on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
Jeremiah 7:21
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.
Jeremiah 7:22
For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.