Jeremiah 7:6 “if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the wido…”

Jeremiah 7:6

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,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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:

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,

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:

Geneva Bible 1599

And oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your destruction,

Darby Translation

[if] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

Young's Literal Translation

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

Bible in Basic English

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

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Cross references

“oppress”

Exodus 22:21–24 Zechariah 7:9–12 Deuteronomy 24:17 Deuteronomy 27:19 Malachi 3:5 James 1:27

Exodus 22:21–24 · BSB

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Zechariah 7:9–12 · BSB

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

Deuteronomy 24:17 · BSB

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

Deuteronomy 27:19 · BSB

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Malachi 3:5 · BSB

“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…

James 1:27 · BSB

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

“and shed”

Jeremiah 2:34 Isaiah 59:7 Matthew 23:35–37 Jeremiah 2:30 Jeremiah 26:15 Jeremiah 26:23

Jeremiah 2:34 · BSB

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

Isaiah 59:7 · BSB

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Matthew 23:35–37 · BSB

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Jeremiah 2:30 · BSB

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 26:15 · BSB

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”

Jeremiah 26:23 · BSB

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.

“neither walk”

Jeremiah 13:10 Deuteronomy 8:19 Deuteronomy 11:28 Ezekiel 18:6 Deuteronomy 6:14 Deuteronomy 6:15

Jeremiah 13:10 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 8:19 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 11:28 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 18:6 · BSB

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

Deuteronomy 6:14 · BSB

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

Deuteronomy 6:15 · BSB

For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

Also

Jeremiah 19:4 Jeremiah 7:5

Jeremiah 19:4 · BSB

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 w…

Jeremiah 7:5 · BSB

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

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