Jeremiah spoke at the temple

7 Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,

2 “Go to the entrance of my temple, and give this message to the people:

You people of Judah who worship here, listen to this message from Yahweh!

3 The Commander of the armies of angels says to you,

'If you stop doing evil things and start doing what is right,

I will allow you to remain living in your land.'

4 But some people are repeatedly saying to you,

‘The temple of Yahweh is here,

so we will be safe;

he will not allow us and the temple to be destroyed.’

But do not pay attention to what they say,

because they are deceiving you.

5 I will act mercifully to you only if you change your behavior and stop doing evil things,

and if you start to act fairly/justly toward others,

6 and if you stop oppressing foreigners who live in your country, and orphans and widows,

and if you stop murdering people,

and if you stop worshiping ◄foreign gods/idols►.

However, if you continue to do those things, you will be destroyed.

7 If you do what I have told you, I will allow you to stay in this land that I promised to your ancestors that it would belong to them and their descendants forever.

8 People are repeatedly telling you, ‘The temple is here, so we are safe’,

and you are trusting/believing that what they are saying is true, but it is a lie.

Those people are deceiving you, and what they say is worthless.

9 You think that [RHQ] you can steal things, murder people, commit adultery, tell lies in court, and worship Baal and all those other gods that you did not know about previously,

10 and then come here and stand in front of this temple, which is my temple, and say ‘Nothing bad will happen to us!’,

while you continue to do all those abominable things.

11 Do you realize that you are causing this temple, which is my temple, to become like [MET] a den where bandits hide [RHQ]?

Do you not know that I see all the evil things that you people do there?

12 Long ago I put my Sacred Tent at Shiloh city, to be a place where people would worship me [MTY].

Think about how I destroyed it because my people, the Israeli people, did many wicked things there.

13 And while you were continually doing those wicked things,

I told you about it many times, but you refused to listen.

I called out to you,

but you refused to answer me.

14 Therefore, just like I destroyed Shiloh, I will now destroy this temple

that was built for people to worship me [MTY],

this temple that you trust in,

that is in this place that I gave to you and your ancestors.

15 And I will expel you from this land and send you to other countries far away from me,

just like I did to your relatives, the people of Israel.”