Jeremiah 7:4–15

⁴Confide ye not in words of falsehood, saying, Jehovah’s temple, Jehovah’s temple, Jehovah’s temple is this. ⁵But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour, ⁶if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt; ⁷then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for ever. ⁸Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit. ⁹What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not… ¹⁰then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, —in order to do all these abominations! ¹¹Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah. ¹²For go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, and ye heard not, and I called you, and ye answered not; ¹⁴I will even do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh; ¹⁵and I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.