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Jeremiah 7:6

World English Bible

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;

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Jeremiah 7:6 in other translations

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:

Jeremiah 7:6 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 7:6 in context

  1. 4Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
  2. 5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
  3. 6if 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;
  4. 7then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
  5. 8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.