Jeremiah 7:6
ContextNET © | 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 |
NIV © | if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, |
NASB © | if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin, |
NLT © | and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm. |
MSG © | only if you quit exploiting the street people and orphans and widows, no longer taking advantage of innocent people on this very site and no longer destroying your souls by using this Temple as a front for other gods-- |
BBE © | 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: |
NRSV © | if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, |
NKJV © | " if 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, |
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NET © [draft] ITL | Stop <03808> oppressing <06231> foreigners <01616> who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers <03490> , and women who have lost their husbands <0490> . Stop <0408> killing <08210> innocent <05355> people <01818> in this <02088> land <04725> . Stop <03808> paying allegiance to other <0312> gods <0430> . That will only bring about <01980> your ruin .<07451> |
NET © | 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 |
NET © Notes |
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.” |