Jeremiah 7:11 (LSB)

Passage

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a robbers’ den in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares Yahweh.

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear while lying, and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:10 then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 7:11 Has this house, which is called by My name, become a robbers’ den in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares Yahweh.

Jeremiah 7:12 “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.

Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because you have done all these works,” declares Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "house", "name", "become", "robbers", "sight", "behold", and "even". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "house", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "then come and stand before Me in..." into verse 12's "But go now to My place which...", so "called" and "house" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "house" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.