6. if you stop taking advantage of the immigrant, orphan, or widow; if you don’t shed the blood of the innocent in this place, or go after other gods to your own ruin,
7. only then will I dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave long ago to your ancestors for all time.
8. And yet you trust in lies that will only hurt you.
9. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal and go after other gods that you don’t know,
10. and then come and stand before me in this temple that bears my name, and say, "We are safe," only to keep on doing all these detestable things?
11. Do you regard this temple, which bears my name, as a hiding place for criminals? I can see what’s going on here, declares the Lord.
12. Just go to my sanctuary in Shiloh, where I let my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.
13. And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, because you haven’t listened when I spoke to you again and again or responded when I called you,
14. I will do to this temple that bears my name and on which you rely, the place that I gave to you and your ancestors, just as I did to Shiloh.
15. I will cast you out of my sight, just as I cast out the rest of your family, all the people of Ephraim.
16. As for you, don’t pray for these people, don’t cry out or plead for them, and don’t intercede with me, for I won’t listen to you.
17. Can’t you see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven. And to offend me all the more, they pour out drink offerings to foreign gods.
19. But am I the one they are really offending? declares the Lord. Aren’t they in fact humiliating themselves?
20. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I’m going to pour out my fierce anger on this place, on humans and beasts, on the trees of the field and the crops of the fertile land. It will burn and not go out.