Jeremiah 11:14–23

14 “Therefore ado not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will bnot listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

15 “What right has My abeloved in My house

When bshe has done many vile deeds?

Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster,

1So that you can rejoice?”

16 The Lord called your name,

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

With the bnoise of a great tumult

He has ckindled fire on it,

And its branches are worthless.

17 The Lord of hosts, who aplanted you, has bpronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have 1done to provoke Me by 2coffering up sacrifices to Baal.

Plots against Jeremiah

18 Moreover, the Lord amade it known to me and I knew it;

Then You showed me their deeds.

19 But I was like a gentle alamb led to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had bdevised plots against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree with its 1fruit,

And clet us cut him off from the dland of the living,

That his ename be remembered no more.”

20 But, O Lord of hosts, who ajudges righteously,

Who btries the 1feelings and the heart,

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You have I 2committed my cause.

21 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of aAnathoth, who bseek your life, saying, “cDo not prophesy in the name of the Lord, so that you will not ddie at our hand”;

22 therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, I am about to apunish them! The byoung men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine;

23 and a remnant awill not be left to them, for I will bbring disaster on the men of Anathoth—cthe year of their punishment.”