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So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’ <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What right has My beloved in My house, <p class="indent2"> having carried out so many evil schemes? <p class="indent1"> Can consecrated meat avert your doom, <p class="indent2"> so that you can rejoice? <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, <p class="indent2"> beautiful with well-formed fruit. <p class="indent1"> But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, <p class="indent2"> and its branches will be consumed. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.” <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">A Plot against Jeremiah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/18.htm#18">Jeremiah 18:18–23</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the LORD informed me, so I knew. <p class="indent2"> Then You showed me their deeds. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; <p class="indent2"> I did not know that they had plotted against me: <p class="indent1">“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; <p class="indent2"> let us cut him off from the land of the living, <p class="indent2"> that his name may be remembered no more.” <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, <p class="indent2"> who examines the heart<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and mind, <p class="indent1"> let me see Your vengeance upon them, <p class="indent2"> for to You I have committed my cause. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>I earnestly warned them, rising up early and warning (them),</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew <i>the kidneys</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. 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