Jeremiah 7:6

Translations

Modern

…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,

Traditional

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:

Literal

…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,

Latin

…advenæ, et pupillo, et viduæ non feceritis calumniam, nec sanguinem innocentem effuderitis in loco hoc, et post deos alienos non ambulaveritis in malum vobismetipsis:

Original

Hebrew

English

…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,

Notes

Jeremiah 7:5–7

Idol worship harmed the people in several ways. Spiritually, idols were illusions. Socially, idol worship ruined their community bonds. Politically, it made them overconfident against foreign armies. Without change, they had no future in the Promised Land (Exodus 22:21–24; Deuteronomy 4:40; 6:14–15).

Jeremiah 7:1–15

Jeremiah corrected the people who believed that God's Temple would ensure their safety (compare Jeremiah 26:1–6).

Theme notes and profiles

Religious Hypocrisy Temple Worship The Choice of Life or Death The Collapse of Culture

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Exodus 22:21–24
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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.
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.
Zechariah 7:9–12
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
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.
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
Deuteronomy 6:14–15
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Psalm 82:3–4
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Jeremiah 22:3–4
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Jeremiah 19:4
…because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Family Life and Relations Jeremiah (Person) Neighbor Orphan Temple

Topics

Aliens: To be Treated with Justice Blessing: Contingent Upon Obedience Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Fatherless: Blessedness of Taking Care of Immigration Orphan: General Scriptures Concerning Widow: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Widows: should not Be: Oppressed

Jeremiah 7:6

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