Jeremiah 7:4-12 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

4. “Do not trust in these false words, saying, ‘This is the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה!’

5. “For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour,

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 mighty ones to your own evil,

7. then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

8. “See, you are trusting in false words, which do not profit –

9. stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, and swearing falsely, and burning incense to Ba‛al, and walking after other mighty ones you have not known.

10. “And you came and stood before Me in this house which is called by My Name, and said, ‘We have been delivered’ – in order to do all these abominations!

11. “Has this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I Myself have seen it,” declares יהוה.

12. “But go now to My place at Shiloh, where I set My Name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Yisra’ĕl.

Jeremiah 7