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Jeremiah 7:5
5“No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice 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 King James Version (NKJV)“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,
Context of Jeremiah 7:5
3Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place. 4Do not trust in deceptive words and say ‘The Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai!’ “No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor, 6not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin— 7then I will let you 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 Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
- Jeremiah 4:1“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares Adonai. “If you will put your detestable things out of My sight. Then you will not waver.
- Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obey, you will eat the good of the land.
- Judges 5:1Then Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day saying:
- Judges 21:12So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known man by lying with him. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
- 1 Kings 6:12“As for this House which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes, execute My ordinances and keep all My mitzvot by walking in them, then I will establish My word with you, which I spoke to your father David,
- Isaiah 16:3‘Give counsel, execute justice. Cast your shadow like night at noonday. Hide the refugees, do not betray the fugitive.
- Ezekiel 18:8He does not loan with interest or take unjust gain. He keeps his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between people,
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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