Jeremiah 11
11
Judah Has Broken the Lord's Agreement
1-3The Lord God told me to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
I, the Lord, am warning you that I will put a curse on anyone who doesn't keep the agreement I made with Israel. So pay attention to what it says. 4My commands haven't changed since I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, a nation that seemed like a blazing furnace where iron ore is melted. I told your ancestors that if they obeyed my commands, I would be their God, and they would be my people. 5Then I did what I had promised and gave them this wonderful land, where you now live.
“Yes, Lord,” I replied, “that's true.”
6Then the Lord told me to say to everyone on the streets of Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah:
Pay attention to the commands in my agreement with you. 7Ever since I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, I have been telling your people to obey me. But you and your ancestors 8have always been stubborn. You have refused to listen, and instead you have done whatever your sinful hearts have desired.
You have not kept the agreement we made, so I will make you suffer every curse that goes with it.
9The Lord said to me:
Jeremiah, the people of Judah and Jerusalem are plotting against me. 10They have sinned in the same way their ancestors did, by turning from me and worshiping other gods. The northern kingdom of Israel broke the agreement I made with your ancestors, and now the southern kingdom of Judah#11.10 Israel … Judah: See the note at 2.4. has done the same.
11Here is what I've decided to do. I will bring suffering on the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and no one will escape. They will beg me to help, but I won't listen to their prayers. 12-13Then they will offer sacrifices to their other gods and ask them for help. After all, the people of Judah have more gods than towns, and more shameful altars for Baal than there are streets in Jerusalem. But those gods won't be able to rescue the people of Judah from disaster.
14Jeremiah, don't pray for these people or beg me to rescue them. If you do, I won't listen, and I certainly won't listen if they pray!
15Then the Lord told me to say to the people of Judah:
You are my chosen people,
but you have no right
to be here in my temple,
doing such evil things.
The sacrifices you offer me
won't protect you from disaster,
so stop celebrating.#11.15 celebrating: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 15.
16Once you were like an olive tree
covered with fruit.
But soon I will send a noisy mob
to break off your branches
and set you on fire.
17I am the Lord All-Powerful. You people of Judah were like a tree that I had planted, but you have made me angry by offering sacrifices to Baal, just as the northern kingdom did. And now I'm going to pull you up by the roots.
The Plot To Kill Jeremiah
* 18Some people plotted to kill me.
And like a lamb
being led to the butcher,
I knew nothing
about their plans.
19But then the Lord told me
that they had planned
to chop me down like a tree—
fruit and all—
so that no one would ever
remember me again.
20 #
Ws 1.6-9. I prayed, “Lord All-Powerful,
you always do what is right,
and you know every thought.
So I trust you to help me
and to take revenge.”
21Then the Lord said:
Jeremiah, some men from Anathoth#11.21 Anathoth: Jeremiah's hometown (see 1.1). say they will kill you, if you keep on speaking for me. 22But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death. 23And when I am finished, no one from their families will be left alive.
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Jeremiah 11
11
Reminder of the Covenant
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2“Listen to the words of this covenant#Dt 29:9 and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem. 3Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Let a curse be on the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,#Dt 27:26; Gl 3:10 4which I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt,#Dt 29:25; Jr 7:22; 34:13 out of the iron furnace.”#Dt 4:20; 1Kg 8:51 I declared, “Obey me, and do everything that I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God,”#Dt 29:13; Jr 24:7; 30:22 5in order to establish the oath I swore to your ancestors,#Gn 26:3; Dt 7:8 to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is today.’”
I answered, “Amen, Lord.”#Dt 27:15–16
6The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.’ 7For I strongly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt until today, warning them time and time again,#11:7 Lit today, rising early and warning#2Ch 36:15; Jr 7:13,25; 25:3; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 35:14–15; 44:4 ‘Obey me.’ 8Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart.#Jr 3:17; 7:24; 16:12 So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”
9The Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been discovered among the men of Judah#Ezk 22:25; Hs 6:9 and the residents of Jerusalem. 10They have returned to the iniquities of their ancestors#Lv 26:39–40; Neh 9:2; Is 65:7 who refused to obey my words and have followed other gods to worship them.#Dt 28:14; Jr 13:10; 35:15 The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant I made with their ancestors.
11“Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape.#Jr 39:4–7; Am 9:1–4 They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them. 12Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.#Dt 32:35–37 13Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah,#Jr 2:28 and the altars you have set up to Shame#11:13 = Baal#Jr 3:24; Hs 9:10 — altars to burn incense to Baal — as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.
14“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf,#Jr 7:16; 14:11 for I will not be listening when they call out to me at the time of their disaster.
15What right does my beloved have
to be in my house,#Jr 7:1–15
having carried out so many evil schemes?
Can holy meat#11:15 = sacrificial meat#Hg 2:12 prevent your disaster#11:15 LXX; MT reads meat pass from you
so you can celebrate?
16The Lord named you
a flourishing olive tree,#Ps 52:8; 128:3; Hs 14:6
beautiful with well-formed fruit.
He has set fire to it,
and its branches are consumed#11:16 Vg; MT reads broken#Ezk 31:12
with the sound of a mighty tumult.#Ezk 1:24
17“The Lord of Armies who planted you#Is 5:2,7; Jr 2:21 has decreed disaster against you, because of the disaster#11:17 Or evil the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves when they angered me by burning incense to Baal.”
18The Lord informed me, so I knew.
Then you helped me to see their deeds,
19for I was like a docile#11:19 Or pet lamb led to slaughter.#Ps 44:11,22; Is 53:7; Jr 12:3
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;#11:19 Lit bread
let’s cut him off from the land of the living#Ps 27:13; Is 53:8; Ezk 26:20
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
20But, Lord of Armies, who judges righteously,
who tests#Jr 9:7; 12:3 heart#11:20 Lit kidneys and mind,#Ps 7:9; 17:3; 26:2
let me see your vengeance on them,
for I have presented my case to you.#Jr 20:12
21Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth#Jr 1:1; 32:7–9 who intend to take your life. They warn, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord,#Am 7:13 or you will certainly die at our hand.” 22Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: “I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.#Am 7:16–17 23They will have no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth#Jr 23:12 in the year of their punishment.”
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