Jeremiah 7:21

Therefore, this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Take away [IRO] your offerings that you bring to burn completely on your altars and your other sacrifices; don’t give them to me; eat them yourselves!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

In Context

20So Yahweh the Lord says this: “Because I am extremely angry with what happens at this place, I will punish these people severely [MTY]; my being very angry will be like [MET] a fire that will not be extinguished, and I will destroy the people, their animals, their fruit trees, and their crops.”

22When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not offerings to be completely burned on the altar or other sacrifices that I wanted from them.

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Cross References

Psalms 50:8I am not rebuking you for making sacrifices to me, for the offerings that you completely burn on the altar.

Jeremiah 6:20You Israeli people, when you burn frankincense that came from far away in Sheba, and when you offer to me sweet-smelling anointing oil that came from far away, I will not [RHQ] be pleased with your sacrifices. I will not accept the sacrifices that are completely burned on the altar; I am not pleased with any of your sacrifices.

Amos 5:21Yahweh says, “I hate your religious celebrations and the times when you gather to worship me; I detest them [DOU].

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:17-21

Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 606.) 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me to anger?… Read the whole commentary →

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