False Trust in the Temple

Jeremiah 7:8-15

Look! You are relying on deceitful words that can't do you any good.

First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba'al and go after other gods that you haven't known.

Then you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, 'We are saved' - so that you can go on doing these abominations!

Do you regard this house, which bears my name, as a cave for bandits? I can see for myself what's going on," says ADONAI.

"Go to the place in Shiloh that used to be mine, that used to bear my name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Isra'el.

I spoke to you again and again, but you wouldn't listen. I called you, but you wouldn't answer. Now," says ADONAI, "because you have done all these things,

I will do to the house that bears my name, on which you rely, and to the place I gave you and your ancestors, what I did to Shiloh;

and I will drive you out of my presence, just as I drove out all your kinsmen, all the descendants of Efrayim."'

False Trust in the Temple

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