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

(7.21)
“Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.”
Eat your own goddamned burnt offerings. I am sick of them, saith the Lord.

22 For
I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

(7.22)
“I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.”
96 Did God command the Israelites to make him burnt offerings?

23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away
, and take up a lamentation on high places;
for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

(7.29)
“Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away … for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.”

30 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.

31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

33 And
the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

(7.33)
“The carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.”
God will feed people to the birds and the beasts, “and none shall fray them away.”

34 Then will I cause to cease 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 the land shall be desolate.

JEREMIAH 8

8
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

2
And they shall spread them before the sun
, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped:
they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

(8.1-2a) Bring out your bones!
“At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: And they shall spread them before the sun.”

(8.2b)
“They shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.”
God will cover the earth with dead bodies that will not be buried. “They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.”

3 And
death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family
, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them,
saith the LORD
of hosts.

(8.3)
“Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family … saith the LORD.”
People will choose to kill themselves, rather than be killed by their vicious God.

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