11This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Listen to the terms of this covenant^x and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. ³Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed^y is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant—⁴the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt,^z out of the iron-smelting furnace.^a’ I said, ‘Obey^b me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people,^c and I will be your God. ⁵Then I will fulfill the oath I swore^d to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’^e—the land you possess today.”

I answered, “Amen,^f Lord.”

⁶The Lord said to me, “Proclaim^g all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow^h them. ⁷From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again,ⁱ saying, “Obey me.” ⁸But they did not listen or pay attention;^j instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts.^k So I brought on them all the curses^l of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.^m’ ”

⁹Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracyⁿ among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. ¹⁰They have returned to the sins of their ancestors,^o who refused to listen to my words.^p They have followed other gods^q to serve them.^r Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant^s I made with their ancestors. ¹¹Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster^t they cannot escape.^u Although they cry^v out to me, I will not listen^w to them. ¹²The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense,^x but they will not help them at all when disaster^y strikes. ¹³You, Judah, have as many gods^z as you have towns;^a and the altars you have set up to burn incense^b to that shameful^c god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

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Cross references

xSee Dt 5:2
y Dt 11:26–28; 27:26; 28:15–68; Gal 3:10
zver 7
aSee 1 Ki 8:51
bSee Ex 24:8; Jer 7:23
c Jer 7:23; 31:33; Eze 11:20
dSee Ex 6:8; 13:5; Dt 7:12; Ps 105:8–11
eSee Ex 3:8
fSee Dt 27:26
gSee Jer 4:5
hSee Ex 15:26; See Dt 15:5; Jas 1:22
iSee 2 Ch 36:15
jSee Jer 7:26
kSee Ecc 9:3; See Jer 3:17
l Lev 26:14–43; Dt 28:15–68; See Jos 23:15
mSee 2 Ch 7:19; Ps 78:10; Jer 26:4; 32:23; 44:10
n Eze 22:25
o Dt 9:7; See 2 Ch 30:7
p Zec 7:11
qSee Jdg 2:12–13; See 10:13
r Jer 16:11; Eze 20:8
s Isa 24:5; Jer 34:18; Hos 6:7; 8:1
tSee 2 Ki 22:16; See Jer 4:6
uSee Job 11:20; La 2:22
vSee Job 27:9; Jer 14:12; Eze 8:18; Mal 2:13
wver 14; See Ps 66:18; Pr 1:28; See Isa 1:15; 59:2; Eze 8:8; Zec 7:13
xSee Dt 32:38; See Jer 44:17
ySee Dt 32:37; See Jdg 10:14
zSee Ex 20:3; Jer 19:4
aSee 2 Ki 17:29
bSee Jer 7:9; 44:21
cSee Jer 3:24