^{3 Ref} The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.

^{4 Ref} Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

^{5 Ref} For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

^{6 Ref} If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

^{7 Ref} Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.