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The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah and call out there this Word, and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah all Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place.

Do not trust yourself to lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah! The temple of Jehovah! This is the temple of Jehovah!

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor;

if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; and do not pour out innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your evil;

then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from forever and to forever.

Behold, you trust for yourself on lying words without being of use.

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know?

And will you then come and stand before Me in this house on which My name is called, and say, We are delivered in order to do all those detestable things.

Has this house on which My name is called become a den of violent ones in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen, declares Jehovah.