Jeremiah 7:5 (DRB)

Passage

For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:5 For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

Jeremiah 7:6 If 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,

Jeremiah 7:7 I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "order", "well", "ways", "doings", "execute", "judgment", "between", and "neighbour". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "order" and "well", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "Trust not in lying words saying The..." into verse 6's "If you oppress not the stranger the...", so "order" and "well" 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 "order" and "well" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.