Jeremiah 7:5
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- KJV
- For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
- WEB
- For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
- ASV
- For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
- DARBY
- But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,
- BLB
- For if you⁺ thoroughly amend your⁺ ways and your⁺ deeds; if you⁺ thoroughly do justice between a man and between his neighbor;
- ÅB
- Men dersom dere bedrer deres veier og deres gjerninger, dersom dere skifter rett mellom mann og mann,
- OTB
- For hvis dere virkelig forbedrer deres veier og deres gjerninger, og utøver rettferdighet mellom en person og hans nabo,
- B1930
- Men dersom I bedrer eders veier og eders gjerninger, dersom I skifter rett mellem mann og mann,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 7:3
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:19
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Read in context1 Kings 6:12–13
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
Read in contextJeremiah 4:1–2
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Read in contextIsaiah 16:3
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:17
That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:8
He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
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