Jeremiah 7:5-18

English Standard Version

⁵ “For if you truly ^(A)amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly ^(B)execute justice one with another, ⁶ if you ^(C)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, ^(D)or shed innocent blood in this place, ^(E)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, ^7 (F)then I will let you dwell in this place, ^(G)in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

⁸ “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. ^9 (H)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, ^(I)swear falsely, ^(J)make offerings to Baal, ^(K)and go after other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before me in this house, ^(L)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? ^11 (M)Has this house, ^(N)which is called by my name, ^(O)become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. ¹² Go now to ^(P)my place that was in Shiloh, ^(Q)where I made my name dwell at first, and ^(R)see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and ^(S)when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and ^(T)when I called you, you did not answer, ¹⁴ therefore I will do to ^(U)the house ^(V)that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, ^(W)as I did to Shiloh. ^15 (X)And I will cast you out of my sight, ^(Y)as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of ^(Z)Ephraim.

¹⁶ “As for you, ^(AA)do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. ¹⁷ Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, ^(AB)and the women knead dough, to ^(AC)make cakes for ^(AD)the queen of heaven. And ^(AE)they pour out drink offerings to other gods, ^(AF)to provoke me to anger.