Catholic Public Domain Version
"Behold, you trust in false words, which will not benefit you, "
— Jeremiah 7:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.”
“Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. ”
“Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.”
““‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.”
“Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:”
“See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.”
“Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.”
For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor,
if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,
then I will live with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from the beginning and even forever.
Behold, you trust in false words, which will not benefit you,
so as to steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer libations to Baal, and to go after strange gods, which you do not know.
And you arrived and stood before me in this house, where my name is invoked, and you said: ‘We have been freed because we carried out all these abominations.’
So then, has this house, where my name has been invoked, become a den of robbers in your eyes? It is I, I am, I have seen, says the Lord.