Jer 7:5-7 | NETfull | 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 ^{▼▼ 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. ^{▼▼ Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.} 6 Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. ^{▼▼ Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”} Stop killing innocent people ^{▼▼ Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”} in this land. Stop paying allegiance to ^{▼▼ 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. ^{▼▼ Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”} 7 If you stop doing these things, ^{▼▼ 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 ^{▼▼ Heb “live in this place, in this land.”} which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession. ^{▼▼ Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”}