Jeremiah 7:8 (DRB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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.

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

Jeremiah 7:9 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.

Jeremiah 7:10 And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "behold", "trust", "lying", "words", "shall", and "profit". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "behold" and "trust", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "I will dwell with you in this..." into verse 9's "To steal to murder to commit adultery...", so "behold" and "trust" 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 "behold" and "trust" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.