Jeremiah:7:4-11
rsv@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Do not trust in these deceptive words: `This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'
rsv@Jeremiah:7:5 @ "For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,
rsv@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,
rsv@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.
rsv@Jeremiah:7:8 @ "Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
rsv@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Ba'al, and go after other gods that you have not known,
rsv@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, `We are delivered!'--only to go on doing all these abominations?
rsv@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, says the LORD.
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