Isa 56:5-11, Jer 7:11, Hos 12:7-8, Mat 21:13, Mar 11:17, Act 19:24-27 | ESV | STEP | I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters ; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off .

5 ^aI will give in my house and within my walls
a ^bmonument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
^cI will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
6 “And ^dthe foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone ^ewho keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
7 ^fthese I will bring to ^gmy holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
^htheir burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for ⁱmy house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
8 The Lord God,
^jwho gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
^k“I will gather yet others to him
besides those already gathered.”

Israel’s Irresponsible Leaders

9 ^lAll you beasts of the field, come to devour—
all you beasts in the forest.
10 ^mHis watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent ⁿdogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 ^oThe dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But ^pthey are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
^qeach to his own gain, one and all.

Jeremiah 7:11

11 ^rHas this house, ^swhich is called by my name, ^tbecome a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.

Hosea 12:7-8

7 A merchant, in whose hands are ^ufalse balances,
he loves ^vto oppress.
8 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but ^wI am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors ^xthey cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”

Matthew 21:13

13 He said to them, “It is written, ^y‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but ^zyou make it a den of robbers.”

Mark 11:17

17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ^aa‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But ^abyou have made it a den of robbers.”

Acts 19:24-27

24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, ^acbrought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 ^adThese he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, ^aesaying that ^afgods made with hands are not gods. 27 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the ^aggreat goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”