Jeremiah 7:5-6
New English Translation
5 You must change[a] the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.[b] 6 Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands.[c] Stop killing innocent people[d] in this land. Stop paying allegiance to[e] other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.[f]
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- Jeremiah 7:5 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
- Jeremiah 7:5 tn Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop oppressing resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.”sn Cf. Exod 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Deut 10:18-19; 24:14, 17; 27:19.
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.
- Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”
Jeremiah 7:5-6
King James Version
5 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:
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Jeremiah 7:5-6
New King James Version
5 “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly (A)execute [a]judgment between a man and his neighbor, 6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (B)or walk after other gods to your hurt,
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- Jeremiah 7:5 justice
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