Jeremiah 7:6

The stranger and outcast Poverty and the vulnerable Justice Parents and children

⁴ Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

⁵ For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

⁷ then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

⁸ But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
KJV: 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:
WEB: if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
ASV: if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
DARBY: [if] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
BLB: [if] the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, you would not oppress, and innocent blood you would not pour out in this place, and you⁺ would not walk, after other gods to your⁺ own harm,

ÅB: ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette sted og ikke følger andre guder til ulykke for dere selv,
OTB: hvis dere ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse eller enken, og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette stedet, og ikke følger andre guder til deres egen skade,
B1930: ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den farløse og enken og ikke utøser uskyldig blod på dette sted og ikke følger andre guder til ulykke for eder selv,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 22:21–24
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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Zechariah 7:9–12
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
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Jeremiah 13:10
These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
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Deuteronomy 8:19
If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
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Deuteronomy 11:28
but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
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Jeremiah 2:34
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
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Deuteronomy 6:14–15
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
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Psalms 82:3–4
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
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