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Jeremiah 7:9

Verse 9 of 34. The 7th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,

7then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

10then 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?

11Has 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.

13Now, 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;

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.