Jeremiah 7:5 (KJV)

Passage

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

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

Jeremiah 7:5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Jeremiah 7:6 If ye 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:

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

Study Lenses

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

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