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Jeremiah 7:1-34

Amend Your Ways at the Gate

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Amend Your Ways at the Gate

Jeremiah 7:1-34

[Litany] At the gate the polished stones looked safe, Amend your ways before you cross this gate, Three times they named the temple and hid behind the phrase. A holy address cannot shelter a lie. But the widow was pressed and the stranger denied, Amend your ways before you cross this gate, Blood crossed the street while the altar stayed bright. A holy address cannot shelter a lie. [Verse 2] Shiloh is dust; let the old ruin speak, A house becomes a den when the strong rob the weak. Children carried wood to a fire never asked, False gods received what mercy should have guarded. [Refrain] Amend your ways before you cross this gate, A holy address cannot shelter a lie. [Bridge] No wedding song remains when the trumpet is done, No sacred wall can bargain with the Holy One. Hear at the gate before the gate is no more; Obedience is the key, not the name on the door. [Final Chorus] Amend your ways before you cross this gate, A holy address cannot shelter a lie. Obedience is the key, not the name on the door.