Jeremiah 7:6 (ASV)

Passage

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.

Jeremiah 7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Jeremiah 7:6 if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Jeremiah 7:7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.

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

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "oppress", "sojourner", "fatherless", "widow", "shed", "innocent", "blood", and "place". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "oppress" and "sojourner", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "For if ye thoroughly amend your ways..." into verse 7's "then will I cause you to dwell...", so "oppress" and "sojourner" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "oppress" and "sojourner" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.