"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?" — Jeremiah 7:17

Jeremiah 7:17 · KJV

“Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?”

— Jeremiah 7:17

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.

Verse 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. {queen...: or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven}

Jeremiah 7 — Context

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, {even} the whole seed of Ephraim.

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.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: {do they} not {provoke} themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Cross References

Ezekiel 14:23

And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 8:6-18

He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? {even} the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, {and} thou shalt see greater abominations.

Jeremiah 6:27

I have set thee {for} a tower {and} a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.