The Covenant Is Broken
11 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant(A) and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3 Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed(B) is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— 4 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt,(C) out of the iron-smelting furnace.(D)’ I said, ‘Obey(E) me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people,(F) and I will be your God. 5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore(G) to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’(H)—the land you possess today.”
I answered, “Amen,(I) Lord.”
6 The Lord said to me, “Proclaim(J) all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow(K) them. 7 From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again,(L) saying, “Obey me.” 8 But they did not listen or pay attention;(M) instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts.(N) So I brought on them all the curses(O) of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.(P)’”
9 Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy(Q) among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. 10 They have returned to the sins of their ancestors,(R) who refused to listen to my words.(S) They have followed other gods(T) to serve them.(U) Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant(V) I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster(W) they cannot escape.(X) Although they cry(Y) out to me, I will not listen(Z) to them. 12 The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense,(AA) but they will not help them at all when disaster(AB) strikes. 13 You, Judah, have as many gods(AC) as you have towns;(AD) and the altars you have set up to burn incense(AE) to that shameful(AF) god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
14 “Do not pray(AG) for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen(AH) when they call to me in the time of their distress.
15 “What is my beloved doing in my temple
as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?
Can consecrated meat(AI) avert your punishment?(AJ)
When you engage in your wickedness,
then you rejoice.[a]”
16 The Lord called you a thriving olive tree(AK)
with fruit beautiful in form.
But with the roar of a mighty storm
he will set it on fire,(AL)
and its branches will be broken.(AM)
17 The Lord Almighty, who planted(AN) you, has decreed disaster(AO) for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused(AP) my anger by burning incense to Baal.(AQ)
Plot Against Jeremiah
18 Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. 19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;(AR) I did not realize that they had plotted(AS) against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
let us cut him off from the land of the living,(AT)
that his name be remembered(AU) no more.”
20 But you, Lord Almighty, who judge righteously(AV)
and test the heart(AW) and mind,(AX)
let me see your vengeance(AY) on them,
for to you I have committed my cause.
21 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth(AZ) who are threatening to kill you,(BA) saying, “Do not prophesy(BB) in the name of the Lord or you will die(BC) by our hands”— 22 therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men(BD) will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. 23 Not even a remnant(BE) will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.(BF)”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice
Cross references
- Jeremiah 11:2 : S Dt 5:2
- Jeremiah 11:3 : Dt 11:26-28; 27:26; 28:15-68; Gal 3:10
- Jeremiah 11:4 : ver 7
- Jeremiah 11:4 : S 1Ki 8:51
- Jeremiah 11:4 : S Ex 24:8; Jer 7:23
- Jeremiah 11:4 : Jer 7:23; 31:33; Eze 11:20
- Jeremiah 11:5 : S Ex 6:8; 13:5; Dt 7:12; Ps 105:8-11
- Jeremiah 11:5 : S Ex 3:8
- Jeremiah 11:5 : S Dt 27:26
- Jeremiah 11:6 : S Jer 4:5
- Jeremiah 11:6 : S Ex 15:26; S Dt 15:5; Jas 1:22
- Jeremiah 11:7 : S 2Ch 36:15
- Jeremiah 11:8 : S Jer 7:26
- Jeremiah 11:8 : S Ecc 9:3; S Jer 3:17
- Jeremiah 11:8 : Lev 26:14-43; Dt 28:15-68; S Jos 23:15
- Jeremiah 11:8 : S 2Ch 7:19; Ps 78:10; Jer 26:4; 32:23; 44:10
- Jeremiah 11:9 : Eze 22:25
- Jeremiah 11:10 : Dt 9:7; S 2Ch 30:7
- Jeremiah 11:10 : Zec 7:11
- Jeremiah 11:10 : S Jdg 2:12-13; S 10:13
- Jeremiah 11:10 : Jer 16:11; Eze 20:8
- Jeremiah 11:10 : Isa 24:5; Jer 34:18; Hos 6:7; 8:1
- Jeremiah 11:11 : S 2Ki 22:16; S Jer 4:6
- Jeremiah 11:11 : S Job 11:20; La 2:22
- Jeremiah 11:11 : S Job 27:9; Jer 14:12; Eze 8:18; Mal 2:13
- Jeremiah 11:11 : ver 14; S Ps 66:18; Pr 1:28; S Isa 1:15; 59:2; Eze 8:8; Zec 7:13
- Jeremiah 11:12 : S Dt 32:38; S Jer 44:17
- Jeremiah 11:12 : S Dt 32:37; S Jdg 10:14
- Jeremiah 11:13 : S Ex 20:3; Jer 19:4
- Jeremiah 11:13 : S 2Ki 17:29
- Jeremiah 11:13 : S Jer 7:9; 44:21
- Jeremiah 11:13 : S Jer 3:24
- Jeremiah 11:14 : S Ex 32:10
- Jeremiah 11:14 : S ver 11
- Jeremiah 11:15 : Hag 2:12
- Jeremiah 11:15 : S Jer 7:9-10
- Jeremiah 11:16 : S Ps 1:3; Hos 14:6
- Jeremiah 11:16 : S Jer 7:20; 21:14
- Jeremiah 11:16 : S Isa 27:11; Ro 11:17-24
- Jeremiah 11:17 : S Ex 15:17; Isa 5:2; Jer 12:2; 45:4
- Jeremiah 11:17 : ver 11
- Jeremiah 11:17 : Jer 7:18
- Jeremiah 11:17 : S Jer 7:9
- Jeremiah 11:19 : S Ps 44:22
- Jeremiah 11:19 : ver 21; S Ps 44:16; 54:3; 71:10; Jer 18:18; 20:10
- Jeremiah 11:19 : S Job 28:13; S Ps 116:9; Isa 53:8
- Jeremiah 11:19 : Ps 83:4
- Jeremiah 11:20 : Ps 7:11
- Jeremiah 11:20 : S 1Sa 2:3; S 1Ch 29:17
- Jeremiah 11:20 : S Ps 26:2
- Jeremiah 11:20 : S Ps 58:10; La 3:60
- Jeremiah 11:21 : S Jos 21:18
- Jeremiah 11:21 : S ver 19; Jer 12:6; 21:7; 34:20
- Jeremiah 11:21 : S Isa 30:10
- Jeremiah 11:21 : Jer 2:30; 18:23; 26:8, 11; 38:4
- Jeremiah 11:22 : S Isa 9:17; Jer 18:21
- Jeremiah 11:23 : Jer 6:9
- Jeremiah 11:23 : Jer 23:12