1. THE WORD that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Stand in the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim there this word and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.
3. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4. Trust not in the lying words [of the false prophets who maintain that God will protect Jerusalem because His temple is there], saying, This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
5. For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly and truly execute justice between every man and his neighbor,
6. If you do not oppress the transient and the alien, the fatherless, and the widow or shed innocent blood [by oppression and by judicial murders] in [Jerusalem] or go after other gods to your own hurt,
7. Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers to dwell in forever.
8. Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot benefit [so that you do not profit].