1. The word that came to Jeremiah from Adonai, saying:
2. Stand in the gate of Adonai’s house and proclaim there this word and say: “Hear the word of Adonai, all you of Judah that come through these gates to worship Adonai.
3. Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
4. Do not trust in deceptive words and say ‘The Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai!’
5. “No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor,
6. not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—
7. then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
8. Look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are empty.