For if you amend and redress your ways and your works; if you execute judgment between a man and neighbor,

And oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your destruction,

Then [a]will I let you dwell in this place in the land that I gave unto your fathers forever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:7 God showeth on what condition he made his promise to this Temple: that they should be an holy people unto him, as he would be a faithful God to them.

If you really change(A) your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,(B) if you do not oppress(C) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood(D) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods(E) to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land(F) I gave your ancestors(G) for ever and ever.

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