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The word that came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,

Stand in the gate of the Lords house, and proclaime there this word, and say, Heare the word of the Lord, all ye of Iudah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel; Amend your wayes, and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord are these.

For if ye throughly amend your waies and your doings, if you throughly execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour:

If ye oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your hurt:

Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gaue to your fathers, for euer and euer.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Will ye steale, murther, and commit adulterie, and sweare falsly, and burne incense vnto Baal, and walke after other gods, whom ye know not;

And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my Name, and say, We are deliuered, to do all these abominations?

Is this house, which is called by my Name, become a denne of robbers in your eies? Behold, euen I haue seen it, saith the Lord.