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Jeremiah 11:14

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11:14So, Jeremiah,32 do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them.33 For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.”34

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  1. 32 Heb “you.”
  2. 33 The words “to save them” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. Jer 7:16 where this same command is addressed to Jeremiah.
  3. 34 The rendering “when disaster strikes them” is based on reading “at the time of” (בְּעֵת, bé’et) with a number of Hebrew and the versions instead of “on account of” (בְּעַד, bé’ad). W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:) is probably right in assuming that the has been influenced by “for them” (בַעֲדָם, va’adam) earlier in the verse.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to me at the time of their disaster.

NLTNew Living Translation

“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.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble.

KJV 1900King James Version

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.