Jeremiah 7:7
Good News Translation
If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.

New Revised Standard Version
then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.

Contemporary English Version
Then I will let you enjoy a long life in this land I gave your ancestors.

New American Bible
only then will I let you continue to dwell in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors long ago and forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.

will I.

Jeremiah 17:20-27 And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and al Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates. . . .

Jeremiah 18:7,8 I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. . . .

Jeremiah 25:5 When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.

in the land.

Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 4:40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

2 Chronicles 33:8 And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the land which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take heed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the ceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.

Context
Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate
6If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt, 7I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.8Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:…
Cross References
Exodus 22:22
You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

Deuteronomy 4:40
Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave to your fathers.

Jeremiah 4:1
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved.

Jeremiah 25:5
When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 35:15
And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way, and make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.

Zephaniah 3:7
I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction: and her dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have visited her: but they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.

Jeremiah 7:6
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