Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
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Interpretation
The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it.
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This thought runs through Jeremiah 19:4-8.