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Jeremiah 11 :: New International Version (NIV)

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The Covenant Is Broken

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:1 - This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:2 - “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3 - Tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:4 - the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:6 - The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:7 - From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:8 - But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:9 - Then the LORD said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:11 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:13 - You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 - “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:15 - “What is my beloved doing in my temple as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your punishment? When you engage in your wickedness, then you rejoice.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:16 - The LORD called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 - The LORD Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.

Plot Against Jeremiah

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:18 - Because the LORD revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20 - But you, LORD Almighty, who judge righteously and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have committed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD or you will die by our hands”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:23 - Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
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Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice
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Jeremiah Chapter 11 — Additional Translations:

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