5. Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor;
6. if you no longer oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow after other gods to your own harm,
7. only then will I let you continue to dwell in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors long ago and forever.
8. But look at you! You put your trust in deceptive words to your own loss!
9. Do you think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal, follow other gods that you do not know,
10. and then come and stand in my presence in this house, which bears my name, and say: “We are safe! We can commit all these abominations again!”?
11. Has this house which bears my name become in your eyes a den of thieves? I have seen it for myself!—oracle of the Lord.
12. Go to my place at Shiloh, where I made my name dwell in the beginning. See what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13. And now, because you have committed all these deeds—oracle of the Lord—because you did not listen, though I spoke to you untiringly, and because you did not answer, though I called you,
14. I will do to this house, which bears my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your ancestors, exactly what I did to Shiloh.
15. I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away all your kindred, all the offspring of Ephraim.
16. You, now, must not intercede for this people! Do not raise a cry or prayer in their behalf! Do not press me, for I will not listen to you!
17. Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, while libations are poured out to other gods—all to offend me!
19. Are they really offending me—oracle of the Lord—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?
20. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: my anger and my wrath will pour out upon this place, upon human being and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruits of the earth; it will burn and not be quenched.