Jeremiah 11 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

And the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Hear the words of this [solemn] covenant and do them.

Then the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the people of Jerusalem.

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I shall not listen when they cry to Me in the time of their disaster.

“What right has My beloved [to be] in My house

When she has done many vile things and acted treacherously [over and over again]?

Can vows and the meat of your sacrifices remove your wickedness from you and cancel the consequences of your sin,

So that you can [escape your judgment and] rejoice?”

The LORD [acknowledged you once as worthy and] called your name,

“A green olive tree, fair and beautiful in fruit and form”;

But with the roar of a great tempest

He has set fire to it,

And its branches are worthless.

For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil and horror against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me [to anger] by offering sacrifices and burning incense to Baal.

Then the LORD gave me knowledge [of their plot], and I knew it;

So You [O LORD] revealed their deeds to me.

But I was like a gentle and tame lamb brought to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised plots and schemes against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit;

Let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no longer.”

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously,

Who tests the feelings and the heart (mind),

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You I have committed my cause.

Therefore thus says the LORD regarding the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, so that you will not die by our hand.”