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,
14. what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name — the house in which you trust — the place that I gave you and your ancestors.
15. I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16. “As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
17. Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger.
19. But are they really provoking Me? ” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ”
20. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Look, My anger — My burning wrath — is about to be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”
21. This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,
22. for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
23. However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.