Jeremiah 7:6-16

1. 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

2. 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

3. 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

4. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

5. 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

6. 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

7. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

8. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

9. 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

10. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

11. 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

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