5 “Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another.
6 Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshipping other gods, for that will destroy you.
7 If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.
8 “Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
9 You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
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!’
11 Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing.