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Jeremiah 11

11 The word that was to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2 “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak them to the men of Judah and to the ones who dwell in Jerusalem, 3 and say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Cursed is the man who does not hear the words of this covenant 4 that I commanded your fathers on the day of my bringing them out from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying, ‘Listen to my voice and you are to do according to all that I command you, so you will be to me for a people and I will be to you for God,’ 5 so that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give to them a land flowing of milk and honey, as this day.” ’ ” Then I answered and said, “So be it, Yahweh!”

6 And Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Say, ‘Listen to the words of this covenant and do them. 7 For warning, I warned your ancestors in the day I brought them up from the land of Egypt and until this day, rising early and admonishing, saying, “Listen to my voice.” 8 Yet they did not listen and they did not incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart, therefore I brought upon them all of the words of this covenant that I commanded them to do, but they did not do it.’ ”

9 And Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and in the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They have returned to the iniquities of their first fathers, who refused to listen to my words, and they walked after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant that I cut with their fathers. 11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am bringing calamity to them, which they will not be able to go out from it, and though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them. 12 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are offering to them, and saving they will not save them in the time of their calamity. 13 For as the number of your cities are your gods, Judah, and as the number of the streets of Jerusalem, you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to offer to Baal.

14 Therefore you, do not intercede for this people and do not lift up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for there is not me listening in the time of their calling to me because of their calamity.

15 What to my beloved in my house, to do her wickedness, the many,

and the flesh of the holy thing they pass over from you? When evil of you, then you rejoice.

16 Yahweh called your name, leafy olive tree, beautiful and of good fruit.

With the sound of a great storm he will kindle a fire upon her, and its branches will be broken. 17 For Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you, has spoken calamity against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah which they have done to anger me, offering to Baal.’ ”

18 And Yahweh made me know it, and I knew it; then you showed me their deeds. 19 And I was like a gentle lamb brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plans against me, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit! And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name will not be remembered any longer.”

20 But Yahweh of hosts is one judging of righteousness, examining kidneys and the heart.

Let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have revealed my cause.

21 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth who are seeking your life saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, and you will not die by our hand.” 22 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Behold, I am punishing upon them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine, 23 and there will not be a remnant to them, for I will bring calamity on the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation.”