²Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.

³Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.

⁴Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

⁵For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

⁶If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,

⁷I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.

⁸Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:

⁹To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.

¹⁰And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations.

¹¹Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

¹²Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:

¹³And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:

¹⁴I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.

¹⁵And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.

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