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Jeremiah 11

11 This message came to Jeremiah from the Eternal, 2 “Speak to the men of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem, 3 tell them that this is the word of the Eternal, the God of Israel: ‘Listen to the terms of this compact --a curse on the man who will not listen!-- 4 this compact which I enjoined upon your fathers when I brought them out of that iron furnace, the land of Egypt; I told you, if you obeyed my orders and carried out all my commands, then you would be my people, and I would be a God to you, 5 confirming the oath I swore to your fathers, when I promised them a land abounding in milk and honey--as you have to-day.’ ” I answered the Eternal that I would certainly proclaim this. 6 Then the Eternal bade me proclaim all this in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem saying, “Listen to the terms of this compact, and obey them.” 8 But they did not obey them.

9 The Eternal then said to me, “There is mutiny among the men of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem; 10 they have gone back to the iniquities of their ancestors, who would not listen to what I said; they have gone after foreign gods, to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the compact that I made with their fathers. 11 Therefore (the Eternal declares) I am bringing on them disaster that they cannot escape; nor will I listen to them, when they cry to me. 12 The townsmen of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem may go and cry to the gods to whom they sacrifice; but they will be no help to them at all on the day of their disaster.

”What right has my beloved in my house,

when she has given herself to vile ways?

Can vows and consecrated flesh absolve your guilt,

or let you off?

You once were called to be

a lovely spreading olive-tree;

but it is blasted in a thunderclap,

its branches broken. 17 [[For the Lord of hosts, who planted you, has decreed evil against you, on account of evil wilfully done by the house of Israel and the house of Judah in spiting me by sacrificing to Baal.]] * * *

The Eternal lets me know their plot,

I see what they are doing!

I was like a trustful lamb,

led out to be slaughtered;

I knew not of their plot,

to cut me down in my full bloom,

to cut me out of the land of the living,

that my very name might be forgotten.

Ah but, O thou Eternal, thou just judge,

testing the very heart and mind,

I shall see thee take vengeance on them;

for I have told thee of my plight.

21 “This, then, is the Eternal’s sentence on the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You must not prophesy in the name of the Eternal, else you die at our hands’-- 22 this is what the Lord of hosts has to say: I will punish them.

their young men shall be put to the sword,

their sons and daughters shall perish by famine,

not one survivor shall be left to them;

for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth,

in the year fixed for their punishment.”