Jeremiah 7:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

Oppress

And shed

Neither walk

Ezekiel 18:6

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

Oppress

Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

"You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

"Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

And shed

In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.

they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."

Neither walk

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you--

And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.

and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,

General references

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'

You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.