Jeremiah 7:8 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

KJV

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ASV

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

WEB

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

YLT

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

DBT

Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.

About this book

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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31 verses on the floor

Isaiah 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 23:32
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
2 Timothy 2:14
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

If they knew any thing either of the temple of the Lord or of the Lord of the temple, they must think that to plead that, either in excuse of their sin against God or in arrest of God's judgment against them, was the most ridiculous unreasonable thing that could be. [1.] God is a holy God; but this plea made him the patron of sin, of the worst of sins, which even the light of nature condemns,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

that cannot profit--MAURER translates, "so that you profit nothing" (see Jer 7:4; "Will ye steal . . . and then come and stand before Me?" whom ye know not--Ye have no grounds of "knowing" that they are gods; but I have manifested My Godhead by My law, by benefits conferred, and by miracles.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H327623× in canon H1115112× in canon H8267113× in canon H982120× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 7:8JER 23:32 JER 29:31
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JER 7:8JER 7:4 MIC 3:11
JER 7:8JER 23:32 LAM 2:14
JER 7:8JER 23:32 EZE 13:7-18
JER 7:8JER 23:32 ZEP 3:4
JER 7:8ISA 28:15 ISA 8:7-8
JER 7:8JER 7:4 MAT 3:9-10
JER 7:8JER 7:4 ZEP 3:11

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