Jeremiah 7:6
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.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
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.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
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
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextZechariah 7:9–12
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Read in contextJeremiah 13:10
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 11:28
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:34
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:14–15
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Read in contextPsalms 82:3–4
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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