Jeremiah 7:1-11

International Standard Version

“Change^[a] your ways and your deeds, and I’ll let you live in this place. ⁴ Don’t trust deceptive words like these, and say, ‘The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord,’ ⁵ but rather, truly change^[b] your ways and your deeds. If you truly practice justice between each person and his neighbor, ⁶ and if you don’t oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, and don’t shed an innocent person’s blood in this place, and if you don’t follow other gods to your own harm,^{[c] 7} then I’ll let you dwell in this land, the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.

⁸ “Look, you’re trusting in deceptive words that cannot benefit.^{[d] 9} Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear by false gods, burn incense to Baal, follow other gods that you don’t know, ¹⁰ and then come to stand before me in this house that is called by my name and say, ‘We’re delivered’ so we can continue to do all these things that are repugnant to God?^{[e] 11} Has this house that is called by my name become a hideout^[f] for bandits in your eyes? Look, I’m watching,” declares the Lord.