Jeremiah 7:5

“For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, etc.] Or, “if ye make your ways good, and do your works well”, which is what is exhorted to (<240703>Jeremiah 7:3), and respects the duties of the moral law; which are more acceptable to God than legal sacrifices, when done from right principles, and with right views, from love, in faith, and to the glory of God; which is doing good works well; the particulars of which follow: if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; without respect to persons, without favour and affection, without bribery and corruption; passing a righteous sentence, and making an equitable decision of the case between them, according to the…”

“For--"But" [MAURER]. judgment--justice (Jer 22:3).”

“A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor. Jeremiah 7:6 In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23. Jeremiah 7:7 Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant Genesis 17:7; the Jews had broken the conditions of this covenant Jeremiah 7:5-6, and the gift reverted to the original donor. return to 'Top of Page'”

“7:5-7 Idol worship had harmed the people—spiritually, because idols were delusions; socially, because their behavior destroyed fellowship; and politically, because they did not think foreign armies could conquer them. Unless the people changed, they had no future in the Promised Land (Exod 22:21-24; Deut 4:40; 6:14-15).”

“For if: Jer 7:3, Jer 4:1, Jer 4:2; Isa 1:19 if ye thoroughly: Jdg 5:1, Jdg 21:12; Kg1 6:12, Kg1 6:13; Isa 16:3; Eze 18:8, Eze 18:17 Jeremiah 7:6”