Jeremiah 7:2-7

2“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who enter by these gates to worship the Lord.’ ”

3Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Change your ways and your behavior, and I will let you live in this place.

4Do not trust in the deceptive and lying words [of the false prophets who claim that Jerusalem will be protected by God because of the temple], saying, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

5For if you thoroughly change your ways and your behavior, if you thoroughly and honestly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

6if you do not oppress the transient and the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood [by oppression and by unjust judicial murders] in Jerusalem, nor follow after other gods to your own ruin,

7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers [to live in] forever and ever.