Jeremiah 7:1-15
Jeremiah’s Message at the Temple Gate

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

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2 Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

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3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

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4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.

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5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

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6 [If] ye 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:

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7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

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8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

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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;

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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?

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11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.

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12 But go ye 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.

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13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

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14 Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

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15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

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