Jeremiah 7:22 (LSB)

Passage

For I did not speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

Jeremiah 7:21 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

Jeremiah 7:22 For I did not speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Jeremiah 7:23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in the entire way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Jeremiah 7:24 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "speak", "fathers", "command", "brought", "land", "egypt", "concerning", and "burnt". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "speak" and "fathers", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 21's "Thus says Yahweh of hosts the God..." into verse 23's "But this is what I commanded them...", so "speak" and "fathers" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "speak" and "fathers" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.