Jeremiah 7:5 - The Scriptures 1998 “For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly and truly execute justice between every man and his neighbor, American Standard Version (1901) For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; Common English Bible No, if you truly reform your ways and your actions; if you treat each other justly; Catholic Public Domain Version For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if you will order well your ways and your doings: if you will execute judgement between a man and his neighbor; |
“Bring counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; hide the outcasts, do not betray him who escapes.
“Do you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do right-ruling and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
‘Thus said יהוה, “Do right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
“And now, make good your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, then יהוה shall relent concerning the evil He has pronounced against you.
turns back his hand from wronging the poor, and he has not taken interest or increase, has executed My right-rulings and walked in My laws – he shall not die for the crookedness of his father, he shall certainly live!
if he does not lend on interest or take increase, turns back his hand from unrighteousness, executes right-ruling in truth between man and man,
‘And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim. For I am יהוה your Elohim.
‘Are these not the words which יהוה proclaimed through the former prophets when Yerushalayim and the cities around it were inhabited and in safety, and the South and the low country were inhabited?’ ”