Jer 7:5-7 | NET2full | STEP | You must change the way you have been living and do what is right . You must treat one another fairly .

‏ Jeremiah 7:5-7

5 You must change ^{▼▼tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.} the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly. ^{▼▼tn Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.} 6 Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. ^{▼▼tn Heb “Stop oppressing resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.”} ^{▼▼sn Cf. Exod 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Deut 10:18-19; 24:14, 17; 27:19.} Stop killing innocent people ^{▼▼tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”} in this land. Stop paying allegiance to ^{▼▼tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.} other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. ^{▼▼tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”} 7 If you stop doing these things, ^{▼▼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.} I will allow you to continue to live in this land ^{▼▼tn Heb “live in this place, in this land.”} that I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession. ^{▼▼tn Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”}