^{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.

^{8 Ref} See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

^{9 Ref} Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

^{10 Ref} And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

^{11 Ref} Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

^{12 Ref} But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.