Jeremiah 7:1-7 ▼

1 The message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

2 |Stand at the gate of the LORD's Temple and proclaim this message there. Say, 'Listen to this message from the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD.'|

3 This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: |Change 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 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,

7 then I'll let you dwell in this land, the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.