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so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>in order to establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as <i>it is</i> this day.”’” Then I answered and said, “Amen, O Yahweh.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Yahweh said to me, “Call out all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant so that you will do them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising up early and warning, saying, “Listen to My voice.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded <i>them</i> to do, but they did not.’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have turned back to the iniquities of their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have walked after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing calamity on them which they will not be able to get out of; and they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their calamity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For your gods are the number of your cities, O Judah; and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“But as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their calamity. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What <i>possession</i> has My beloved in My house <p class="indent2">When she has done many schemes of wickedness? <p class="indent2">Can the flesh, <i>which is</i> set apart as holy, take away from you your calamity, <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>So <i>that</i> you can exult?” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Yahweh called your name, <p class="indent2">“A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form”; <p class="indent2">With the noise of a great tumult <p class="indent2">He has kindled fire on it, <p class="indent2">And its foliage has an evil <i>demise</i>. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Yahweh of hosts, who planted you, has spoken forth evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>done to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal. <p class="hdg">Men Seek Jeremiah’s Life</p><p><p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Moreover, Yahweh made it known to me, and I knew it; <p class="indent2">Then You showed me their deeds. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; <p class="indent2">And I did not know that they had devised thoughts against me, <i>saying</i>, <p class="indent2">“Let us make the tree with its <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fruit a ruin, <p class="indent2">And let us cut him off from the land of the living, <p class="indent2">That his name be remembered no more.” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteously, <p class="indent2">Who tests the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>insides and the heart, <p class="indent2">Let me see Your vengeance on them, <p class="indent2">For to You have I revealed my case. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, so that you will not die at our hand”; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them! The choice men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring calamity on the men of Anathoth—the year of their punishment.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>do them</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>former fathers</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>Then</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Or <i>done for themselves</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>bread</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>kidneys</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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