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Jeremiah challenges trust in repeated slogans like "This is the temple of the LORD" while people commit serious wrongs (Jeremiah 7:4–10). He says the temple can become "a den of robbers" when used as false security (Jeremiah 7:11).
4Don`t you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.
5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
6if you don`t oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don`t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can`t profit.
9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
10and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.