Jeremiah 7:4–14

⁴Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.” ⁵Instead, if you really correct your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,^{Cg 6}if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow^h and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves, ⁷I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestorsⁱ long ago and forever. ⁸But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

⁹“ ‘Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?^{j 10}Then do you come and stand before me in this house^k that bears my name and say, “We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts”? ¹¹Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers^l in your view? Yes, I too have seen it.^m

This is the Lord’s declaration.

SHILOH AS A WARNING

¹²“ ‘But return to my place that was at Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first.ⁿ See what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. ¹³Now, because you have done all these things—this is the Lord’s declaration—and because I have spoken to you time and time again^A but you wouldn’t listen,^o and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,^{p 14}what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that bears my name,^q the house in which you trust, the place that I gave you and your ancestors.