³⁸ They proclaimed:

⁷ I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations, ^8 (A)and this house shall become a heap of ruins. Every passerby shall gasp in horror and ask, “Why has the Lord done such things to this land and to this house?”

VI

⁴ Do not put your trust in these deceptive words: “The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord!”^{(A) 5} Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor; ⁶ if you no longer oppress the alien,^[a] the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow after other gods to your own harm,^{(B) 7} only then will I let you continue to dwell in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors long ago and forever.^(C)

¹³ And now, because you have committed all these deeds—oracle of the Lord—because you did not listen, though I spoke to you untiringly, and because you did not answer, though I called you, ¹⁴ I will do to this house, which bears my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your ancestors, exactly what I did to Shiloh.^{(A) 15} I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away all your kindred, all the offspring of Ephraim.^(B)