1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
2. Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and proclaim there this word:Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter at these gates to worship the Lord.
3. Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4. Do not trust in lying words, saying, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”
5. For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor,
6. if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your harm,
7. then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8. Indeed, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.
9. Shall you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,
10. and come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, “We are delivered,” so that you may do all these abominations?
11. Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Certainly, even I have seen it, says the Lord.