8Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.


In Context

5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;

10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 7:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:8But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.