Jer 7:4-15, Lam 1:10 | ESV | STEP | Do not trust in these deceptive words : This is the temple of the Lord , the temple of the Lord , the temple of the Lord .

4 ^aDo not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

5 “For if you truly ^bamend your ways and your deeds, if you truly ^cexecute justice one with another, 6 if you ^ddo not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, ^eor shed innocent blood in this place, ^fand if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7 ^gthen I will let you dwell in this place, ^hin the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

8 “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 ⁱWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, ^jswear falsely, ^kmake offerings to Baal, ^land go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, ^mwhich is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 ⁿHas this house, ^owhich is called by my name, ^pbecome a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. 12 Go now to ^qmy place that was in Shiloh, ^rwhere I made my name dwell at first, and ^ssee what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. 13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and ^twhen I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and ^uwhen I called you, you did not answer, 14 therefore I will do to ^vthe house ^wthat is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, ^xas I did to Shiloh. 15 ^yAnd I will cast you out of my sight, ^zas I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of ^aaEphraim.

Lamentations 1:10

10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
over all her ^abprecious things;
for she has seen ^acthe nations
enter her sanctuary,
those whom you ^adforbade
to enter your congregation.