1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
2. "Stand at the gate to the house of the Lord, and preach this word there, and say: Listen to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who enter through these gates to adore the Lord.
3. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Make your ways and your intentions good, and I will live with you in this place.
4. Do not choose to trust in lying words, saying: 'This is the temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord!'
5. For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor,
6. if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,
7. then I will live with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from the beginning and even forever.
8. Behold, you trust in false words, which will not benefit you,
9. so as to steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer libations to Baal, and to go after strange gods, which you do not know.
10. And you arrived and stood before me in this house, where my name is invoked, and you said: 'We have been freed because we carried out all these abominations.'
11. So then, has this house, where my name has been invoked, become a den of robbers in your eyes? It is I, I am, I have seen, says the Lord.
12. Go to my place in Shiloh, where my name has lived from the beginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13. And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and because I have spoken to you from your morning rising, and because I was speaking, but you were not listening, and because I have called you, but you have not responded:
14. I will do to this house, in which my name is invoked, and in which you have confidence, even to this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, just as I have done to Shiloh.
15. And I will cast you away from my face, just as I have cast away all your brothers, the entire offspring of Ephraim.
16. Therefore, you should not pray for this people, nor take up praise and supplication on their behalf. And you should not stand in opposition to me. For then I will not heed you.
17. Have you not seen what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?