Jeremiah 7:1-7 ▼

1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all the house of Judah who enter in these gates to worship the LORD.

3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

4 Do not trust in the lying words of those who say to you, The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.

5 For if you amend your ways and your doings, you are the temple of the LORD; if you execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

6 If you do not defraud and oppress the strangers, the fatherless, and the widows, and do not shed innocent blood in this country, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

7 Then I will cause you to dwell in this country, in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever.