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Jeremiah 7:6-13 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

6. if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,

7. I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.

8. But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

9. “Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?

10. Then do you come and stand before Me in this house called by My name and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’?

11. Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

12. “But return to My place that was at Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at first. See what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.

13. Now, because you have done all these things” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,

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