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Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

KJV

Ecce vos confiditis vobis in sermonibus mendacii, qui non proderunt vobis :

Vulgate

εἰ δὲ ὑμεῖς πεποίθατε ἐπὶ λόγοις ψευδέσιν ὅθεν οὐκ ὠφεληθήσεσθε,

LXX

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

ASV

הִנֵּ֤ה אַתֶּם֙ בֹּטְחִ֣ים לָ/כֶ֔ם עַל דִּבְרֵ֖י הַ/שָּׁ֑קֶר לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י הוֹעִֽיל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
בִלְתִּ֖י
blty
preposition · 112×
בֹּטְחִ֖ים
btchym
verb · 117×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
הִנֵּ֥ה
hnh
pronoun · 838×
הוֹעִ֔יל
hv'yl
verb · 23×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שָֽׁקֶר
shqr
noun · 110×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Tim 2:14 — Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
  • Isa 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 28:15 — Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refug
  • Isa 28:20 — For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
  • Isa 58:1 — Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Isa 59:3 — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
  • Isa 59:4 — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Isa 61:8 — For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 23:32 — Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: there
  • John 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.