Jeremiah 7:6

7:6 Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. ¹  Stop killing innocent people ²  in this land. Stop paying allegiance to ³  other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 50:33

50:33 The Lord who rules over all ⁵  says,

“The people of Israel are oppressed.

So too are the people of Judah. ⁶ 

All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners.

They refuse to set them free.

Jeremiah 21:12

21:12 O royal family descended from David. ⁷ 

The Lord says:

‘See to it that people each day ⁸  are judged fairly. ⁹ 

Deliver those who have been robbed from those ¹⁰  who oppress them.

Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you.

It will burn like a fire that cannot be put out

because of the evil that you have done. ¹¹ 

[7:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”

[7:6]  ² tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”

[7:6]  ³ tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.

[7:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”

[50:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.” For an explanation of this title see the study note on 2:19.

[50:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “Oppressed are the people of Israel and the people of Judah together,” i.e., both the people of Israel and Judah are oppressed. However, neither of these renderings is very poetic. The translation seeks to achieve the same meaning with better poetic expression.

[21:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “house of David.” This is essentially equivalent to the royal court in v. 11.

[21:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to the morning” = “morning by morning” or “each morning.” See Isa 33:2 and Amos 4:4 for parallel usage.

[21:12]  ¹¹ sn The kings of Israel and Judah were responsible for justice. See Pss 122:5. The king himself was the final court of appeals judging from the incident of David with the wise woman of Tekoa (2 Sam 14), Solomon and the two prostitutes (1 Kgs 3:16-28), and Absalom’s attempts to win the hearts of the people of Israel by interfering with due process (2 Sam 15:2-4). How the system was designed to operate may be seen from 2 Chr 19:4-11.

[21:12]  ¹² tn Heb “from the hand [or power] of.”

[21:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “Lest my wrath go out like fire and burn with no one to put it out because of the evil of your deeds.”