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Jeremiah 7:6

American Standard Version

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:

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Jeremiah 7:6 in other translations

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;

Jeremiah 7:6 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 7:6 in context

  1. 4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.
  2. 5For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
  3. 6if 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:
  4. 7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.
  5. 8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.