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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 7:5 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 7:5 |
King James |
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For--"But" [MAURER].
judgment--justice (Jer 22:3). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A summary of the conditions indispensable on man's part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.
Jer 7:6
In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jer 26:23.
Jer 7:7
Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant Gen 17:7; the Jews had broken the conditions of this covenant Jer 7:5-6, and the gift reverted to the original donor. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| If ye throughly amend your ways - Literally, If in making good ye fully make good your ways. God will no longer admit of half-hearted work. Semblances of piety cannot deceive him; he will not accept partial reformation; there must be a thorough amendment. |
3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: