7. then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
8. Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
9. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
10. then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?
11. Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says the Lord.
12. “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13. Now, because you have done all these works,” says the Lord, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;
14. therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
15. I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
16. “Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
17. Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.