Jeremiah 7:8
6 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.
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
10 and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- KJV
- Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- WEB
- Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
- ASV
- Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- DARBY
- Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.
- BLB
- Behold, you⁺ keep trusting for yourselves in words of deception that do not profit.
- ÅB
- Se, dere setter deres lit til løgnaktige ord - til ingen nytte.
- OTB
- Se, dere stoler på bedragerske ord som ikke er til noen nytte.
- B1930
- Se, I setter eders lit til løgnaktige ord - til ingen nytte.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 28:15
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
Read in contextJeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
Read in contextJeremiah 23:26
How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the delusion of their own minds?
Read in contextIsaiah 30:10
They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
Read in contextJeremiah 23:14–16
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
Read in contextJeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:32
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
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