Jeremiah 7:4–14

⁴Do not trust^p in deceptive^q words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” ⁵If you really change^r your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,^{s 6}if you do not oppress^t the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood^u in this place, and if you do not follow other gods^v to your own harm, ⁷then I will let you live in this place, in the land^w I gave your ancestors^x for ever and ever. ⁸But look, you are trusting^y in deceptive^z words that are worthless.

⁹“ ‘Will you steal^a and murder,^b commit adultery^c and perjury,^ad burn incense to Baal^e and follow other gods^f you have not known, ¹⁰and then come and stand^g before me in this house,^h which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?^{i 11}Has this house,^j which bears my Name, become a den of robbers^k to you? But I have been watching!^l declares the Lord.

¹²“ ‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^m where I first made a dwellingⁿ for my Name,^o and see what I did^p to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke^q to you again and again,^r but you did not listen;^s I called^t you, but you did not answer.^{u 14}Therefore, what I did to Shiloh^v I will now do to the house that bears my Name,^w the temple^x you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors.