Jeremiah 7:4–14

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 7}then 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.