[7:4] Stop believing those deceitful words, ‘We are safe! This is the Lord's Temple, this is the Lord's Temple, this is the Lord's Temple!’
[7:5] “Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another.
[7:6] Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you.
[7:7] If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.
[7:8] “Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
[7:9] You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
[7:10] You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, ‘We are safe!’
[7:11] Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing.
[7:12] Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.
[7:13] You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.
[7:14] And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.
[7:15] I will drive you out of my sight as I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel. I, the Lord, have spoken.”