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Jeremiah 7:10

What does Jeremiah 7:10 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 7:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, `We have been delivered,' In order to do all these abominations.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, — in order to do all these abominations!

Context

v.9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

v.10This passage

v.11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • John 13:26

    Jesus therefore answereth, He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and give it him. So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

  • Isaiah 1:10

    Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:4

    And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

  • Ezekiel 33:31

    And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.

  • Ezekiel 23:37

    For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:7

    And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

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