Jeremiah 14:12
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Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
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Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!