Jeremiah 7:4
Good News Translation
Stop believing those deceitful words, 'We are safe! This is the LORD's Temple, this is the LORD's Temple, this is the LORD's Temple!'

New Revised Standard Version
Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
Don't fool yourselves! My temple is here in Jerusalem, but that doesn't mean I will protect you.

New American Bible
Do not put your trust in these deceptive words: “The temple of the LORD! The temple of the LORD! The temple of the LORD!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

Trust.

Jeremiah 7:8 Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:

Jeremiah 6:14 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.

Jeremiah 28:15 And Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 29:23,31 Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 13:19 And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save souls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that believe lies.

Matthew 3:9,10 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. . . .

the temple.

Jeremiah 7:9-12 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. . . .

1 Samuel 4:3,4 And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies. . . .

Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Zephaniah 3:11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.

Context
Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate
3Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place. 4Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.5For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,…
Cross References
1 Kings 9:7
I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.

Isaiah 48:2
For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 59:4
There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.

Isaiah 66:1
Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

Jeremiah 7:8
Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:

Jeremiah 7:14
I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.

Micah 3:11
You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Jeremiah 7:3
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