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Jeremiah 7:30
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Judgment on Obscene Religion

28 “So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God anor receive correction. bTruth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.  
29 aCut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’  
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, to1 pollute it.  
31 And they have built the ahigh places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to bburn their sons and their daughters in the fire, cwhich I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.  
32 “Therefore behold, athe days are coming,” says the Lord, “when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; bfor they will bury in Tophet until there is no room.  
33 The acorpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.  
34 Then I will cause to acease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For bthe land shall be desolate. 
Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 7:30

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American Standard Version
For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Amplified® Bible
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight, says the Lord; they have set their abominations (extremely disgusting and shamefully vile things) in the house which is called by My Name to defile it.

Contemporary English Version
You have disobeyed me by putting your disgusting idols in my temple, and now the temple itself is disgusting to me.

Darby English Version
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith Jehovah; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Good News Bible
"The people of Judah have done an evil thing. They have placed their idols, which I hate, in my Temple and have defiled it.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
"For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, declares the LORD, "they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it."

New International Version
" 'The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.

New King James Version
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the LORD. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"For the sons of Judah have done evil in My sight," declares the LORD, "they have set their detestable things in the house which you call by My name, to defile it.

Revised Standard Version
"For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Young's Literal Translation
For the sons of Judah Have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, An affirmation of Jehovah, They have set their abominations in the house On which My name is called -- to defile it,

New English Translation
The Lord says, “I have rejected them because1 the people of Judah have done what I consider evil.2 They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple3 which I have claimed for my own4 and have defiled it.


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