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    Jeremiah · 23 verses

    Jeremiah 11

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    Jeremiah is told not to pray for people whose future cries have already been refused; even their many gods will not save them when disaster arrives.

    The covenant and its cursesvv. 1–8

    The LORD sends Jeremiah with the covenant’s words to Judah and Jerusalem. The bargain is set out in the old, sternly simple fashion: obey, and the people belong to God; refuse, and the covenant’s curses arrive. Egypt is remembered as an iron furnace, while the promised land is still flowing with milk and honey. Jeremiah answers, quite briefly, “Amen, LORD.” Yet the people have followed the stubbornness of their hearts, and the warnings have been repeated from Egypt until today.

    The beloved and the olive treevv. 9–17

    The LORD names a conspiracy among Judah and Jerusalem: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant and returned to the sins of their forefathers. Disaster is on its way, and the cries directed first to the LORD and then to the gods of Judah will meet equally empty skies. Jeremiah is told not to pray for these people. The affectionate title is left standing beside the accusation—“My beloved” has carried out evil schemes—and the once flourishing olive tree is about to burn, branches and all.

    The tree with its fruitvv. 18–23

    The LORD shows Jeremiah what they have done, and the gentle lamb discovers that he has been led towards slaughter. His enemies describe his destruction in gardening language: the tree, its fruit, and its name are all to be cut away. Jeremiah places his cause before the LORD and asks to see vengeance. Then the people of Anathoth appear, forbidding him to prophesy in the LORD’s name on pain of death. Their punishment is announced with sword and famine, and no remnant is left in the year of disaster.

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    1. Jer 11:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

    2. Jer 11:2“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

    3. Jer 11:3You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

    4. Jer 11:4which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’

    5. Jer 11:5This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

    6. Jer 11:6Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

    7. Jer 11:7For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’

    8. Jer 11:8Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

    9. Jer 11:9And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

    10. Jer 11:10They 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.

    11. Jer 11:11Therefore 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.

    12. Jer 11:12Then 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.

    13. Jer 11:13Your 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.’

    14. Jer 11:14As 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.

    15. Jer 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.

    16. Jer 11:16The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.

    17. Jer 11:17The 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.”

    18. Jer 11:18And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

    19. Jer 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

    20. Jer 11:20O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

    21. Jer 11:21Therefore 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.”

    22. Jer 11:22So 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.

    23. Jer 11:23There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

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    • 14Jeremiah 7:16As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
    • 14Jeremiah 11:11Therefore 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.
    • 20Jeremiah 20:12O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
    • 3Deuteronomy 27:26‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’’’
    • 141 John 5:16If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
    • 14Jeremiah 14:11Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
    • 4Leviticus 26:12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
    • 19Isaiah 53:7–8He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
    • 19Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
    • 4Jeremiah 7:22–23For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
    • 4Deuteronomy 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
    • 11Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
    • 11Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
    • 11Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
    • 20Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
    • 14Exodus 32:10Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

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