Jeremiah 7:5-7

7:5 You must change ¹  the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly. ²  7:6 Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. ³  Stop killing innocent people ⁴  in this land. Stop paying allegiance to ⁵  other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. ⁶  7:7 If you stop doing these things, ⁷  I will allow you to continue to live in this land ⁸  which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession. ⁹ 

¹ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

² tn Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

³ tn Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”

⁴ tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”

⁵ tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.

⁶ tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Heb “live in this place, in this land.”

⁹ tn Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”