Jer 7:6 | NET2full | STEP | Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers , and women who have lost their husbands . Stop killing innocent people in this land . Stop paying allegiance to other gods . That will only bring about your ruin .

‏ Jeremiah 7:6

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.”}