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10 and then come and stand in my presence in this house, which bears my name, and say: “We are safe! We can commit all these abominations again!”?(A) 11 Has this house which bears my name become in your eyes a den of thieves? I have seen it for myself!—oracle of the Lord.(B) 12 Go to my place at Shiloh,[a] where I made my name dwell in the beginning. See what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.(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.(D) 15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away all your kindred, all the offspring of Ephraim.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:12 Shiloh: an important sanctuary where the ark of the covenant was kept, according to the Books of Joshua, Judges, and 1 Samuel. In response to the corrupt behavior of the priests serving there, God allows the Philistines to destroy Shiloh and take the ark of the covenant. Cf. 1 Sm 1:9; 4:3–4; Ps 78:60, 68–69.

10 and then come and stand(A) before me in this house,(B) which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?(C) 11 Has this house,(D) which bears my Name, become a den of robbers(E) to you? But I have been watching!(F) declares the Lord.

12 “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh(G) where I first made a dwelling(H) for my Name,(I) and see what I did(J) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke(K) to you again and again,(L) but you did not listen;(M) I called(N) you, but you did not answer.(O) 14 Therefore, what I did to Shiloh(P) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,(Q) the temple(R) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. 15 I will thrust you from my presence,(S) just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’(T)

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17 The Lord of hosts who planted you has decreed disaster for you because of the evil done by the house of Israel and by the house of Judah, who provoked me by sacrificing to Baal.(A)

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17 The Lord Almighty, who planted(A) you, has decreed disaster(B) for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused(C) my anger by burning incense to Baal.(D)

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