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Jeremiah 7:5

What does Jeremiah 7:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 7:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,

Context

v.4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.

v.5This passage

v.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:

Cross references

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

  • Jeremiah 22:3

    Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Jeremiah 7:3

    Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

  • Ezekiel 18:8

    he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true justice between man and man,

  • Jeremiah 4:1

    If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;

  • Ezekiel 18:17

    that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

  • Isaiah 16:3

    Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

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