Jeremiah 7:4–15

⁴Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is^a the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”

⁵For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,^{* 6}if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,^{* 7}then I will dwell with you^b in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.

⁸Here you are, trusting in deceptive words to no avail.^{* 9}Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known^{* 10}and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are safe!”—only to go on doing all these abominations?^{* 11}Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? I, too, am watching, says the Lord.^{* 12}Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.^{* 13}And now, because you have done all these things, says the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently, you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,^{* 14}therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors just what I did to Shiloh.^{* 15}And I will cast you out of my sight, just as I cast out all your kinsfolk, all the offspring of Ephraim.^*