Jeremiah 7:9

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?

Hebrew Names Version
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Ba`al, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

King James Version
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

English Standard Version
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

New American Standard Bible
"Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer sacrifices to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

New Century Version
Will you steal and murder and be guilty of adultery? Will you falsely accuse other people? Will you burn incense to the god Baal and follow other gods you have not known?

Amplified Bible
"Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear [oaths] falsely, offer sacrifices or burn incense to Baal, and follow after other gods that you have not known,

World English Bible
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Will you steale, murder, and commit adulterie, and sweare falsely and burne incense vnto Baal, and walke after other gods whome yee knowe not?

Legacy Standard Bible
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear while lying, and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Berean Standard Bible
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Contemporary English Version
You steal and murder; you lie in court and are unfaithful in marriage. You worship idols and offer incense to Baal, when these gods have never done anything for you.

Complete Jewish Bible
First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba‘al and go after other gods that you haven't known.

Darby Translation
What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not …

Easy-to-Read Version
Will you steal and murder? Will you commit adultery? Will you falsely accuse other people? Will you worship the false god Baal and follow other gods that you have not known?

George Lamsa Translation
Indeed you are thieves, you are murderers, and you commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods whom you know not;

Good News Translation
You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.

Lexham English Bible
Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear falsely? And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known?

Literal Translation
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For when ye haue stolle, murthured, committed aduoutrie, and periury: Whe ye haue offred vnto Baal, folowinge straunge & vnknowne goddes:

American Standard Version
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

Bible in Basic English
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known,

King James Version (1611)
Will ye steale, murther, and commit adulterie, and sweare falsly, and burne incense vnto Baal, and walke after other gods, whom ye know not;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For when ye haue stollen, murthered, committed adultrie and periurie, when ye haue offered vnto Baal, folowing straunge and vnknowen gods: shall ye be vnpunished?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and ye murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom ye know not,

English Revised Version
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
to stele, to sle, to do auowtrie, to swere falsli, to make sacrifice to Baalym, and to go aftir alien goddys, whiche ye knowen not.

Update Bible Version
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you haven't known,

Webster's Bible Translation
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

New English Translation
You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.

New King James Version
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,

New Living Translation
Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and burn incense to Baal and all those other new gods of yours,

New Life Bible
Will you steal, kill, do sex sins, make false promises, give gifts to the false god Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

New Revised Standard
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Are ye to steal, commit murder and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, - and walk after other gods whom ye have not known;

Douay-Rheims Bible
To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.

Revised Standard Version
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Ba'al, and go after other gods that you have not known,

Young's Literal Translation
Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Contextual Overview

¹The 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: ³"‘Clean up your act—the way you live, the things you do—so I can make my home with you in this place. Don't for a minute believe the lies being spoken here—"This is God 's Temple, God 's Temple, God 's Temple!" Total nonsense! Only if you clean up your act (the way you live, the things you do), only if you do a total spring cleaning on the way you live and treat your neighbors, only if you quit exploiting the street people and orphans and widows, no longer taking advantage of innocent people on this very site and no longer destroying your souls by using this Temple as a front for other gods—only then will I move into your neighborhood. Only then will this country I gave your ancestors be my permanent home, my Temple. ⁸"‘Get smart! Your leaders are handing you a pack of lies, and you're swallowing them! Use your heads! Do you think you can rob and murder, have sex with the neighborhood wives, tell lies nonstop, worship the local gods, and buy every novel religious commodity on the market—and then march into this Temple, set apart for my worship, and say, "We're safe!" thinking that the place itself gives you a license to go on with all this outrageous sacrilege? A cave full of criminals! Do you think you can turn this Temple, set apart for my worship, into something like that? Well, think again. I've got eyes in my head. I can see what's going on.'" God 's Decree! ¹² "‘Take a trip down to the place that was once in Shiloh, where I met my people in the early days. Take a look at those ruins, what I did to it because of the evil ways of my people Israel. ¹³"‘So now, because of the way you have lived and failed to listen, even though time and again I took you aside and talked seriously with you, and because you refused to change when I called you to repent, I'm going to do to this Temple, set aside for my worship, this place you think is going to keep you safe no matter what, this place I gave as a gift to your ancestors and you, the same as I did to Shiloh. And as for you, I'm going to get rid of you, the same as I got rid of those old relatives of yours around Shiloh, your fellow Israelites in that former kingdom to the north.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

steal: Jeremiah 9:2-9, Psalms 50:16-21, Isaiah 59:1-8, Ezekiel 18:10-13, Ezekiel 18:18, Ezekiel 33:25, Ezekiel 33:26, Hosea 4:1-3, Micah 3:8-12, Zephaniah 1:5, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4, Malachi 3:5, Romans 2:2, Romans 2:17-29, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 5:5-7, 2 Timothy 3:2-5, James 4:1-4, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

and burn: Jeremiah 11:13, Jeremiah 11:17, Jeremiah 32:29, 1 Kings 18:21

and walk: Jeremiah 7:6, Jeremiah 13:10, Jeremiah 44:3, Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 32:17, Judges 5:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:3 - sweareth Leviticus 19:11 - shall not Leviticus 19:12 - ye shall Deuteronomy 28:58 - If thou wilt 1 Samuel 2:22 - did unto 1 Samuel 21:7 - detained 1 Kings 14:9 - to provoke 2 Kings 23:4 - Baal Psalms 24:4 - sworn Psalms 73:8 - speak wickedly Proverbs 21:7 - robbery Isaiah 48:1 - not in truth Jeremiah 1:16 - and have Jeremiah 5:2 - though Jeremiah 7:4 - The temple Jeremiah 19:4 - burned Jeremiah 20:8 - I cried Jeremiah 23:10 - full Jeremiah 25:6 - General Jeremiah 29:23 - and have Jeremiah 44:26 - The Lord God Ezekiel 5:11 - thou hast Ezekiel 8:11 - every Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Ezekiel 11:6 - General Ezekiel 17:19 - surely Ezekiel 20:39 - but Ezekiel 22:13 - thy dishonest Ezekiel 23:37 - and blood Hosea 2:13 - she burned Hosea 11:10 - walk Zephaniah 3:11 - that rejoice Malachi 1:13 - should I accept Matthew 23:38 - General Romans 2:22 - adultery 1 Corinthians 11:17 - that ye Ephesians 4:28 - him that 1 Timothy 2:8 - lifting

Cross-References

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.

Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.

Galatians 3:28
In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,.... At the same time they offered sacrifices, and trusted in them, they did those things, which would not be grateful to the Lord, nor profitable to them; or, "ye do steal", c. so the Septuagint, and all the Oriental versions; and likewise the Targum; as charging them with them; these are sins against the second table of the law, as what follow are against the first:

and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; for they not only burnt incense to Baal, which was an act of idolatrous worship; but served other strange gods they had not known before; whose names they had never heard of, and of whose help and assistance they now had no experience, nor received any benefit from, as they had on the one and only true God; and therefore it was great folly and ingratitude in them to forsake the Lord, and walk after these.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 7:9. Will ye steal, murder — Will you continue to commit such abominations, and pretend to worship me; and thus defile the place that is called by my name; and so make my house a den of robbers? I have seen this,-and can you expect to escape condign punishment? Ye shall not escape.