3 Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say ‘The Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai!’
5 “No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor,
6 not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—
7 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
8 Look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are empty.
9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and perjury, and offer incense to Baal and walk after other gods whom you have not known—