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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 11
11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
11:2 Hear all of you the words of this covenant, and speak unto the
men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
11:3 And say you unto them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel; Cursed
be the man that obeys not the words of this covenant,
11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my
voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall all
of you be my people, and I will be your God:
11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers,
to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then
answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities
of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear all of you the
words of this covenant, and do them.
11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early
and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every
one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon
them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but
they did them not.
11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men
of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve
them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant
which I made with their fathers.
11:11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon
them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry
unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go,
and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not
save them at all in the time of their trouble.
11:13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O
Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have all
of you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense
unto Baal.
11:14 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry
or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry
unto me for their trouble.
11:15 What has my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she has wrought
lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do
evil, then you rejoice.
11:16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly
fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and
the branches of it are broken.
11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil
against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah,
which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering
incense unto Baal.
11:18 And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then
you showed me their doings.
11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter;
and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us
destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the
land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins
and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed
my cause.
11:21 Therefore thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek
your life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not
by our hand:
11:22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish
them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters
shall die by famine:
11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil
upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
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