Jeremiah 7:4–14

⁴Stop believing those deceitful words, ‘We are safe! This is the Lord’s Temple, this is the Lord’s Temple, this is the Lord’s Temple!’

⁵“Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another. ⁶Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshipping other gods, for that will destroy you. ⁷If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.

⁸“Look, you put your trust in deceitful words. ⁹You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before. ¹⁰You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, ‘We are safe!’ ^11*Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing. ^12*Go to Shiloh,^f the first place where I chose to be worshipped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel. ^13*You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you. ^14*And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and to you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.