Jeremiah 7:7

7:7 If you stop doing these things, 1  I will allow you to continue to live in this land 2  which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession. 3 

Jeremiah 42:12

42:12 I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.’

1 tn The translation uses imperatives in vv. 5-6 followed by the phrase, “If you do all this,” to avoid the long and complex sentence structure of the Hebrew sentence which has a series of conditional clauses in vv. 5-6 followed by a main clause in v. 7.

2 tn Heb “live in this place, in this land.”

3 tn Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”