Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 7:5
A church father on this verse
“And thus did He send prophets prior to the transmigration to Babylon, and after that event others again in greater number than the former, to seek the fruits, saying thus to them (the Jews): "Thus saith the Lord, Cleanse your ways and your doings, execute just judgment, and look each one with pity and compassion on hi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
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In context
3Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
— Jeremiah 7:5 —
6and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:
7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and forever.