Bible Passage Scripture Block

Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—

Because the people [of Judah] have rejected me [God] and profaned this place [Jerusalem] by sacrificing to foreign gods unknown by their forefathers and kings, filling it with the blood of children. Not only that, but they built the high places of Baal to sacrifice their sons which I never commanded and is so profane it never entered into my mind to command it.

Jeremiah is preaching the “word of the Lord” to the “kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.” (vs 3) God has told Jeremiah to get a flask of pottery (vs 1) and break it before the people (vs 10) to demonstrate how God will break Judah/Jerusalem.