if you do not oppress the stranger, the [a](A)orphan, or the widow, and do not shed (B)innocent blood in this place, nor (C)follow other gods to your own ruin,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:6 Or fatherless

Since they have (A)abandoned Me and have (B)made this place foreign, and have burned [a]sacrifices in it to (C)other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the (D)blood of the innocent

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:4 Or incense

17 “But your eyes and your heart
Are intent only upon your own (A)dishonest gain,
And on (B)shedding innocent blood,
And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

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