New King James Version
Jeremiah 7:5
5“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 7:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
- New International Version (NIV)If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,
- New Living Translation (NLT)But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;
Context of Jeremiah 7:5
3Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’ “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, 6if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, 7then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Read all of Jeremiah 7Jeremiah 7:5 word by word
כִּ֤י אִם־הֵיטֵיב֙ תֵּיטִ֔יבוּ אֶת־דַּרְכֵיכֶ֖ם וְאֶת־מַֽעַלְלֵיכֶ֑ם אִם־עָשׂ֤וֹ תַֽעֲשׂוּ֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט בֵּ֥ין אִ֖ישׁ וּבֵ֥ין רֵעֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 7:5
- Jeremiah 7:3Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
- Jeremiah 4:1“If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord, “Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved.
- Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
- Judges 5:1Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying:
- Judges 21:12So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known a man intimately; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
- 1 Kings 6:12“Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.
- Isaiah 16:3“Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes.
- Ezekiel 18:8If he has not exacted usury Nor taken any increase, But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity And executed true judgment between man and man;
Commentaries on Jeremiah 7:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5If ye throughly amend your ways - Literally, If in making good ye fully make good your ways. God will no longer admit of half-hearted work. Semblances of piety cannot deceive him; he will not accept partial reformation; there must be a thorough amendment.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5-7Verses 5-7 A summary of the conditions indispensable on man‘s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor. Jeremiah 7:6 In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23. Jeremiah 7:7 Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7Idol worship harmed the people in several ways. Spiritually, idols were illusions. Socially, idol worship ruined their community bonds. Politically, it made them overconfident against foreign armies. Without change, they had no future in the Promised Land (Exodus 22:21–24; Deuteronomy 4:40; 6:14–15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. For--"But" [Maurer]. judgment--justice (Jr 22:3).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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