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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 11 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Jeremiah 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/10.htm" title="Jeremiah 10">◄</a> Jeremiah 11 <a href="../jeremiah/12.htm" title="Jeremiah 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jeremiah/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Covenant Is Broken</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class="name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell them that this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.”</p><p class="reg">I answered, “Amen, <span class="name">Lord</span>.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“What is my beloved doing in my temple</p><p class="line2">as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?</p><p class="line2">Can consecrated meat avert your punishment?</p><p class="line1">When you engage in your wickedness,</p><p class="line2">then you rejoice. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? Then you would rejoice">a</a></sup></span> ”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> called you a thriving olive tree</p><p class="line2">with fruit beautiful in form.</p><p class="line1">But with the roar of a mighty storm</p><p class="line2">he will set it on fire,</p><p class="line2">and its branches will be broken.</p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Plot Against Jeremiah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Because the <span class="name">Lord</span> revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying,</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;</p><p class="line2">let us cut him off from the land of the living,</p><p class="line2">that his name be remembered no more.”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But you, <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, who judge righteously</p><p class="line2">and test the heart and mind,</p><p class="line1">let me see your vengeance on them,</p><p class="line2">for to you I have committed my cause.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the <span class="name">Lord</span> or you will die by our hands”— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>therefore this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Could consecrated meat avert your punishment?<br />     Then you would rejoice</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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