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Jeremiah 4:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 4:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 If you return, O Israel,
says the Lord,
if you return to me,
if you remove your abominations from my presence
and do not waver,(A)
2 and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!”
in truth, in justice, and in uprightness,
then nations shall be blessed[a] by you,[b]
and by you[c] they shall boast.(B)
Jeremiah 4:1-2
Lexham English Bible
Jeremiah 4:1-2
Lexham English Bible
4 If you return, O Israel,” declares[a] Yahweh,
“you return to me.
And if you remove your abominations from my presence,[b]
and you do not wander,
2 and you swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’[c]
in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
then nations will be blessed by him,
and in him they will boast.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:1 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 4:1 Literally “faces”
- Jeremiah 4:2 Literally “life of Yahweh”
Jeremiah 4:1-2
New International Version
Jeremiah 4:1-2
New International Version
4 “If you, Israel, will return,(A)
then return to me,”
declares the Lord.
“If you put your detestable idols(B) out of my sight
and no longer go astray,
2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way
you swear,(C) ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’(D)
then the nations will invoke blessings(E) by him
and in him they will boast.(F)”
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