3. Thus hath the Lord of the hosts the God of Israel said, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4. Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord are these.
5. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbour,
6. if ye do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt,
7. then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever.
8. Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit.
9. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not,
10. and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are free to do all these abominations?
11. Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, said the Lord.
12. But go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13. And now because ye have done all these works, said the Lord and I spoke well unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye did not hear; and I called you, but ye did not answer;
14. therefore I will do unto this house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and unto this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15. And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.