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.

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Footnotes

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”