Jeremiah 7:6

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. ¹  Stop killing innocent people ²  in this land. Stop paying allegiance to ³  other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. ⁴ 

Ex 22:21-24; De 6:14,15; De 8:19; De 11:28; De 24:17; De 27:19; 2Ki 21:6; 2Ki 24:4; Job 31:13-22; Ps 82:3,4; Ps 106:38; Isa 59:7; Jer 2:30,34; Jer 13:10; Jer 22:3,4,15,16; Jer 22:17; Jer 26:15,23; La 4:13; Eze 18:6; Eze 22:3-6; Zec 7:9-12; Mal 3:5; Mt 23:35-37; Mt 27:4,25; Jas 1:27

¹ tn Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”

² tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”

³ tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.

⁴ tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”