7The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,^a ²“Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, those who enter through these gates to bow in worship to Yahweh. ³Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Make your ways and your deeds good and let me dwell with you in this place. ⁴Do not trust in the deceitful words,^b saying,^c ‘The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they are the temple of Yahweh.’ ⁵For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods to your harm,^d ⁷then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors^e forever and ever.^f

⁸Look, you are relying for yourselves on deceitful words^g without benefiting. ⁹Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear falsely?^h And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known? ¹⁰And then you come and you stand beforeⁱ me in this house, which is called by my name,^j and you say, ‘we are safe to go on doing^k all of these detestable things.’ ¹¹Has this house, which is called by my name,^l become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it,” ^m declaresⁿ Yahweh.

¹²“For go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell in the beginning, and see what I did to it because of^o the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³And now, because of your doing all these things,” declares^p Yahweh, “and I have spoken to you over and over again,^q and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered, ¹⁴therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name,^r in which you are trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors^s what^t I did to Shiloh. ¹⁵And I will cast you out of my sight^u just as I cast out all of your blood relatives,^v all of the offspring of Ephraim.” ’

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to say”
bLiterally “the words of the deception”
cLiterally “to say”
dLiterally “to harm to you”
eOr “fathers”
fLiterally “from eternity and until eternity”
gLiterally “the words of the deception”
hLiterally “to the lie”
iLiterally “to the face of”
jLiterally “my name over it”
kLiterally “for the sake of the doing of”
lLiterally “my name over it”
mHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
nLiterally “a declaration of”
oLiterally “from face”
pLiterally “a declaration of”
qLiterally “I spoke to you doing early and speaking”
rLiterally “my name over it”
sOr “fathers”
tLiterally “as that”
uLiterally “from at my face”
vOr “brothers”