2. “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house, and announce from there this message: ‘Listen to the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who go through these gates to worship the Lord.
3. This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Change the way you live and act, and I will let you live in this place.
4. Do not trust the words of this saying, “This is the Lord’s temple, the Lord’s temple, the Lord’s temple!” It’s a lie.
5. “‘Suppose you really change the way you live and act and you really treat each other fairly.
6. Suppose you do not oppress foreigners, orphans, and widows, or kill anyone in this place. And suppose you do not follow other gods that lead you to your own destruction.
7. Then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave permanently to your ancestors long ago.
8. “‘You are trusting the words of a saying. It’s a lie that cannot help you.
9. You steal, murder, commit adultery, lie when you take oaths, burn incense as an offering to Baal, and run after other gods that you do not know.
10. Then you stand in my presence in the house that is called by my name. You think that you’re safe to do all these disgusting things.
11. The house that is called by my name has become a gathering place for thieves. I have seen what you are doing,’” declares the Lord.
12. “‘But go to my place that was at Shiloh, where I first made a dwelling place for my name. See what I did to Shiloh because of the evil done by my people Israel.
13. You have done the same things the people did at Shiloh,’” declares the Lord. “‘Although I spoke to you again and again, you did not listen. When I called you, you did not answer.
14. So what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that is called by my name. This is the place I gave to you and to your ancestors, the place where you feel so safe.
15. I will force you out of my sight as I forced out all your relatives, all of Ephraim’s descendants.’
16. “Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people. Don’t cry or pray for them. Don’t plead with me, because I will not listen to you.
17. Don’t you see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?