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Jeremiah 11 1 The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,
Jeremiah 11 2 "Remind the people of Judah and Jerusalem about the terms of their covenant with me.
Jeremiah 11 3 Say to them, `This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is anyone who does not obey the terms of my covenant!
Jeremiah 11 4 For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of slavery in Egypt, "If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God."
Jeremiah 11 5 I said this so I could keep my promise to your ancestors to give you a land flowing with milk and honey--the land you live in today.'" Then I replied, "So be it, LORD!"
Jeremiah 11 6 Then the LORD said, "Broadcast this message in the streets of Jerusalem. Go from town to town throughout the land and say, `Remember the covenant your ancestors made, and do everything they promised.
Jeremiah 11 7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, repeating over and over again to this day: "Obey me!"
Jeremiah 11 8 But your ancestors did not pay any attention; they would not even listen. Instead, they stubbornly followed their own evil desires. And because they refused to obey, I brought upon them all the curses described in our covenant.'"
Jeremiah 11 9 Again the LORD spoke to me and said, "I have discovered a conspiracy against me among the people of Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 11 10 They have returned to the sins of their forefathers. They have refused to listen to me and are worshiping idols. Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.
Jeremiah 11 11 Therefore, says the LORD, I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.
Jeremiah 11 12 Then the people of Judah and Jerusalem will pray to their idols and offer incense before them. But the idols will not save them when disaster strikes!
Jeremiah 11 13 Look now, people of Judah, you have as many gods as there are cities and towns. Your altars of shame--altars for burning incense to your god Baal--are along every street in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 11 14 "Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me in distress.
Jeremiah 11 15 What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple, where they have done so many immoral things? Can their sacrifices avert their destruction? They actually rejoice in doing evil!
Jeremiah 11 16 "I, the LORD, once called them a thriving olive tree, beautiful to see and full of good fruit. But now I have sent the fury of their enemies to burn them with fire, leaving them charred and broken.
Jeremiah 11 17 I, the LORD Almighty, who planted this olive tree, have ordered it destroyed. For the people of Israel and Judah have done evil, provoking my anger by offering incense to Baal."
Jeremiah 11 18 Then the LORD told me about the plots my enemies were making against me.
Jeremiah 11 19 I had been as unaware as a lamb on the way to its slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! "Let's destroy this man and all his words," they said. "Let's kill him, so his name will be forgotten forever."
Jeremiah 11 20 O LORD Almighty, you are just, and you examine the deepest thoughts of hearts and minds. Let me see your vengeance against them, for I have committed my cause to you.
Jeremiah 11 21 The men of Anathoth wanted me dead. They said they would kill me if I did not stop speaking in the LORD's name.
Jeremiah 11 22 So this is what the LORD Almighty says about them: "I will punish them! Their young men will die in battle, and their little boys and girls will starve.
Jeremiah 11 23 Not one of these plotters from Anathoth will survive, for I will bring disaster upon them when their time of punishment comes."
Jeremiah 12 1 LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?
Jeremiah 12 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root and prospered. Your name is on their lips, but in their hearts they give you no credit at all.
Jeremiah 12 3 But as for me, LORD, you know my heart. You see me and test my thoughts. Drag these people away like helpless sheep to be butchered! Set them aside to be slaughtered!
Jeremiah 12 4 How long must this land weep? Even the grass in the fields has withered. The wild animals and birds have disappeared because of the evil in the land. Yet the people say, "The LORD won't do anything!"
Jeremiah 12 5 Then the LORD replied to me, "If racing against mere men makes you tired, how will you race against horses? If you stumble and fall on open ground, what will you do in the thickets near the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12 6 Even your own brothers, members of your own family, have turned on you. They have plotted, raising a cry against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.
Jeremiah 12 7 "I have abandoned my people, my special possession. I have surrendered my dearest ones to their enemies.
Jeremiah 12 8 My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest, so I have treated them as though I hated them.
Jeremiah 12 9 My chosen people have become as disgusting to me as a vulture. And indeed, they are surrounded by vultures. Bring on the wild beasts to pick their corpses clean!
Jeremiah 12 10 "Many rulers have ravaged my vineyard, trampling down the vines and turning all its beauty into a barren wilderness.
Jeremiah 12 11 They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.
Jeremiah 12 12 Destroying armies plunder the land. The sword of the LORD kills people from one end of the nation to the other. No one will escape!
Jeremiah 12 13 My people have planted wheat but are harvesting thorns. They have worked hard, but it has done them no good. They will harvest a crop of shame, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon them."
Jeremiah 12 14 Now this is what the LORD says: "As for all the evil nations reaching out for the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands just as Judah will be uprooted from hers.
Jeremiah 12 15 But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own inheritance.
Jeremiah 12 16 And if these nations quickly learn the ways of my people, and if they learn to swear by my name, saying, `As surely as the LORD lives' (just as they taught my people to swear by the name of Baal), then they will be given a place among my people.
Jeremiah 12 17 But any nation who refuses to obey me will be uprooted and destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
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