1-3The LORD told me to stand by the gate of the temple and to tell the people who were going in that the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said:
Pay attention, people of Judah! Change your ways and start living right, then I will let you keep on living in your own country.
4Don't fool yourselves! My temple is here in Jerusalem, but that doesn't mean I will protect you.
5I will keep you safe only if you change your ways. Be fair and honest with each other.
6Stop taking advantage of foreigners, orphans, and widows. Don't kill innocent people. And stop worshipping other gods.
7Then I will let you enjoy a long life in this land I gave your ancestors.
8But just look at what is happening! You put your trust in worthless lies.
9You steal and murder; you lie in court and are unfaithful in marriage. You worship idols and offer incense to Baal, when these gods have never done anything for you.
10And then you come into my temple and worship me! Do you think I will protect you so that you can go on sinning?
11You are thieves, and you have made my temple your hideout. But I've seen everything you have done.
12Go to Shiloh, where my sacred tent once stood. Take a look at what I did there. My people Israel sinned, and so I destroyed Shiloh!
13While you have been sinning, I have been trying to talk to you, but you refuse to listen.
14Don't think this temple will protect you. Long ago I told your ancestors to build it and worship me here, but now I have decided to tear it down, just as I destroyed Shiloh.
15And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.
Punishment for worshipping other gods16Jeremiah, don't pray for these people! I, the LORD, would refuse to listen.
17Do you see what the people of Judah are doing in their towns and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.
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