Jeremiah 7:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt:

²¹ A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. ²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice ²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

¹⁴ Go not after other gods; after any of the gods of the nations around you. ¹⁵ [For the zealous God; the Lord thy God is among you] lest the Lord thy God, being provoked to wrath against thee, destroy thee from the face of the land.

¹⁹ Indeed if thou forget the Lord thy God, and go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely perish.

²⁸ and the curse, if you will not hearken to the commandments of the Lord our God, in all respects, as I this day command you; but turn aside out of the way to which I have enjoined you, and go to serve other gods, which you do not know.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. Thou shalt not take the garment of a widow in pledge,

¹⁹ Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

⁶ and made his sons pass through fire, and consulted omens, and auguries, and built temples, and multiplied diviners, to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

⁴ Joakim shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with it. Therefore the Lord would not be pacified.

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me, ¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make? ¹⁵ Was not I formed in the womb as they were? And were we not alike fashioned in the belly? ¹⁶ Far from depriving the poor of what they had, or causing the heart of a widow to fail; ¹⁷ if I have eaten my morsel alone, and have not shared it with the orphan; ¹⁸ [for from my youth I as a father nourished them, and was their guide from my mother's womb] ¹⁹ If I have seen the naked perishing and have not clothed them; ²⁰ and if the poor have not blessed me, and their shoulders been warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support: ²² may my shoulder bone be dislocated, and my arm broken at the elbow.

³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand.

³⁸ and shed innocent blood; the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the graven idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood and

⁷ Their feet are running to evil; they are swift to shed blood. And their reasonings are reasonings for murders. Destruction and misery are in their ways,

³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children, you did not receive instruction: a sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion; and you were not terrified.

³⁴ And on thy hands hath been found the blood of innocent souls. These I did not find in breaches into houses, but in every grove of oaks.

⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your pursuits, and actually execute judgment between man and man:

¹⁰ them who refuse to hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods to serve them and worship them: and they shall be like this girdle which is good for nothing.

⁴ Because they have forsaken me and profaned this place; and have burned incense in it to strange gods, which neither they nor their fathers knew; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

³ Thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment and justice and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him who wrongeth him; and over the stranger and the orphan and the widow tyrannise not; nor be guilty of impiety; nor shed innocent blood in this place. ⁴ For if you faithfully execute this charge, there shall enter in at the gates of this house, kings seated on the throne of David and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people.

¹⁵ Is it thy desire to be made king? because thou art instigated by thy father Achaz, are there not feasts? are there not entertainments? better were it for thee to execute judgment and justice. ¹⁶ They did not take cognisance, they did not administer justice to the lowly, nor decide righteously the cause of the needy, is not this owing to thy not knowing me? saith the Lord. ¹⁷ Behold thine eyes are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate these things.

¹⁵ But be assured that if you put me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof. For in truth, the Lord hath sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

²³ who fetched him out thence and brought him to the king; and he slew him with the sword and threw him into the common grave yard.

¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets; the iniquities of her priests; of them who were shedding innocent blood, in the midst of her,

⁶ who eateth not upon the mountains, nor lifteth up his eyes to the desires of the house of Israel, and defileth not his neighbour's wife, nor approacheth a woman in a state of separation;

³ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, city, which sheddest blood in the midst of thee, to cause thy time to come; and which makest idols against thyself to pollute thyself. ⁴ In the blood which thou hast shed, thou art fallen: and with thine idols, which thou hast made, thou art defiled: and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the term of thy years; therefore I have made thee a scoff to the nations, and a mocking stock to all the countries; ⁵ to those near and to those far from thee; and they shall insult thee, thou impure, infamous and abandoned city. ⁶ Behold in thee the princes of the house of Israel banded themselves, every one with his relations, that they might shed blood.

⁹ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Execute just judgment and shew mercy and compassion one to another; ¹⁰ and oppress not the widow, nor the orphan, nor the stranger, nor the poor; and let none treasure up in his heart for evil an injury done by his brother; ¹¹ but they refused to attend and turned back contemptuously; and stopped their ears that they might not hear; ¹² and made their heart disobedient that they might not hearken to my law; therefore [according to the words which the Lord Almighty by his spirit sent by the ministry of the former prophets] there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty;

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not!

⁴ saying, I have sinned in having betrayed innocent blood To which they replied, What is that to us? Look thou to that.

²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and father is this, to take the oversight and care of orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.