Jeremiah 7:8
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.
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do 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
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Read in contextJeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Read in contextJeremiah 23:26
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Read in contextIsaiah 30:10
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Read in contextJeremiah 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:14–16
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:32
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
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