New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jeremiah 6
26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.
27 "I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way."
28 All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer. They are bronze and iron; They, all of them, are corrupt.
29 The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.
30 They call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.
Jeremiah 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2 "Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word and say, ’Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the Lord!’"
3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.
4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ’This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’
5 For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,
6 if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,
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