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


In Context

5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,

6 if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,

7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever.

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

9 " 'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,

10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe"-safe to do all these detestable things?

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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