Jeremiah 7:1-11

Evangelical Heritage Version

Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who are coming through this gate to worship the Lord. ³ This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says.

Reform your ways and your actions, and I will establish you in this place. ⁴ Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”

⁵ Sincerely reform your ways and your actions. Carry out justice between a man and his neighbor. ⁶ Do not oppress the alien who lives in your land, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place. Do not follow after other gods to your own harm. If you avoid these things, ⁷ I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your fathers forever and ever.

⁸ Take warning. You are trusting in deceptive words that cannot help you.

⁹ Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and swear falsely? Will you offer sacrifices to Baal and follow other gods you do not know? ¹⁰ Will you come and stand before me in this temple that bears my Name, and say, “We are safe,” the whole time you do all these detestable things? ¹¹ This house bears my Name! Have you made it a den of robbers? Watch out! I myself have been watching, declares the Lord.