Jeremiah 7:1

Good News Translation

The Lord sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them: "Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

Hebrew Names Version
The word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,

King James Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying,

English Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

New American Standard Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New Century Version
This is the word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah:

Amplified Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

World English Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The woordes that came to Ieremiah from the Lorde, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me to stand by the gate of the temple and to tell the people who were going in that the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said: Pay attention, people of Judah! Change your ways and start living right, then I will let you keep on living in your own country.

Complete Jewish Bible
This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai :

Darby Translation
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
This is the Lord 's message to Jeremiah:

George Lamsa Translation
THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Lexham English Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Literal Translation
The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the wordes, that God spake vnto Ieremy:

American Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Bible in Basic English
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

King James Version (1611)
The word that came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the wordes that God spake vnto Ieremie, saying:

English Revised Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word that was maad of the Lord to Jeremye,

Update Bible Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New English Translation
The Lord said to Jeremiah:

New King James Version
Jeremiah 26:4-6)">[xr] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,

New Life Bible
This word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

New Revised Standard
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The word that came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh saying: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

Young's Literal Translation
The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

THE MESSAGE
The Message from God to Jeremiah: "Stand in the gate of God 's Temple and preach this Message. "Say, ‘Listen, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship God. God -of-the-Angel-Armies, Israel's God, has this to say to you:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹The Lord sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them: "Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here. ⁴ Stop believing those deceitful words, ‘We are safe! This is the Lord 's Temple, this is the Lord 's Temple, this is the Lord 's Temple!' ⁵ "Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another. ⁶ Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you. ⁷ If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession. ⁸ "Look, you put your trust in deceitful words. ⁹ You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before. ¹⁰ You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, ‘We are safe!' ¹¹ Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing. ¹² Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:2 - General Jeremiah 2:1 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,

Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.

Genesis 7:7
He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.

Genesis 7:8
A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,

Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the flood came.

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word that came to Jeremiah,.... The Word of prophecy, as the Targum:

from the Lord, saying; this begins a new prophecy. This verse, and the beginning of the next, are wanting in the Septuagint version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26:0 had just ascended the throne, and was so incensed at this sermon that he would have put Jeremiah to death but for the influence of Ahikam. With the accession of Jehoiakim all hope of averting the ruin of the country had passed away. He represented the reverse of his father’s policy, and belonged to that faction, who placed their sole hope of deliverance in a close alliance with Pharaoh-Necho. As this party rejected the distinctive principles of the theocracy, and the king was personally an irreligious man, the maintenance of the worship of Yahweh was no longer an object of the public care. At this time upon a public fast-day, appointed probably because of the calamities under which the nation was laboring, Jeremiah was commanded by Yahweh to stand at the gate of the temple, and address to the people as they entered words of solemn warning. The whole sermon divides itself into three parts;

In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26:0 had just ascended the throne, and was so incensed at this sermon that he would have put Jeremiah to death but for the influence of Ahikam. With the accession of Jehoiakim all hope of averting the ruin of the country had passed away. He represented the reverse of his father’s policy, and belonged to that faction, who placed their sole hope of deliverance in a close alliance with Pharaoh-Necho. As this party rejected the distinctive principles of the theocracy, and the king was personally an irreligious man, the maintenance of the worship of Yahweh was no longer an object of the public care. At this time upon a public fast-day, appointed probably because of the calamities under which the nation was laboring, Jeremiah was commanded by Yahweh to stand at the gate of the temple, and address to the people as they entered words of solemn warning. The whole sermon divides itself into three parts;

(1) It points out the folly of the superstitious confidence placed by the people in the temple, while they neglect the sole sure foundation of a nation’s hope. A sanctuary long polluted by immorality must inevitably be destroyed Jeremiah 7:2-3.

(2) complaints follow of a more general character, in which the growing wickedness of the nation and especially of the leaders is pointed out Jeremiah 8:4-24.

(3) lastly the prophet shows the possibility of averting the evils impending upon the nation Jeremiah 9:25-25.

Jeremiah 10:1-2. The temple had several entrances 2 Chronicles 4:9; and the gate or door here mentioned is probably that of the inner court, where Baruch read Jeremiah’s scroll Jeremiah 36:10. The prophet stood in the doorway, and addressed the people assembled in the outer court.

All ye of Judah - Better, literally all Judah (compare Jeremiah 26:2).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

Here begins another section of prophecy, ending with the ninth

chapter. It opens with exhorting to amendment of life, without

which the confidence of the Jews in their temple is declared

vain, 1-11.

God bids them take warning from the fate of their brethren the

Israelites, who had been carried away captive on account of

their sins without any regard to that sacred place, (Shiloh,)

where the ark of God once resided, 12-15.

The iniquities of Judah are so great in the sight of God that

the prophet is commanded not to intercede for the people, 16;

the more especially as they persisted in provoking God by their

idolatrous practices, 17-20.

The Jewish sacrifices, if not accompanied with obedience to the

moral law, are of no avail, 21-24.

Notwithstanding the numerous messages of mercy from the time of

the exodus, the people revolted more and more; and have added

to their other sins this horrible evil, the setting up of their

abominations in the temple of Jehovah; or, in other words, they

have encumbered the Mosaic economy, which shadowed forth the

glorious truths of Christianity, with a heterogeneous admixture

of the idolatrous, impure, and cruel rites of heathenism;

consequently, the whole land shall be utterly desolated, 25-34.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse Jeremiah 7:1. The word that came to Jeremiah — This prophecy is supposed to have been delivered in the first year of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, who, far from following the example of his pious father, restored idolatry, maintained bad priests and worse prophets, and filled Jerusalem with abominations of all kinds.