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 you of Judah, that enter in at 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. Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5. For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
6. If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7. Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8. Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9. Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10. And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11. Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it,
12. But go you 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 you have done all these works,
14. Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, in which you trust, and unto the 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 descendants of Ephraim.
16. Therefore pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.