The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Jeremiah 07
The word that came to Jeremiah from
Yahweh, saying,
2 “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house,
and proclaim this word there, and say,
‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah,
who enter in at these gates to worship
Yahweh.’ ”
3 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel
says, “Amend your ways and your doings,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying,
‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s
temple, 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 don’t oppress the foreigner, the
fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed
innocent blood in this place, and don’t
walk after other gods to your own hurt,
7 then I will cause you to dwell in this
place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, from of old even forever more.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words that
can’t profit.
9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery,
swear falsely, burn incense to Baal,
and walk after other gods that you have
not known,
10 then come and stand before me in this
house, which is called by my name, and
say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all
these abominations?
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
Yahweh.
12 “But go now to my place which was in
Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell
at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel.
13 Now, because you have done all these
works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you,
rising up early and speaking, but you
didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t
answer;
14 therefore I will do to the house which
is called by my name, in which you trust,