KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 11
Jeremiah proclaims Jehovah's covenant, rebukes the Jews' disobeying, prophesies evils to come upon them, and upon the men of Anathoth, for conspiring to kill Jeremiah.
1The Word that was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
2Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem,
3and say to them, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
4which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Hear My voice and do them according to all that I command you, so that you shall be for a people to Me, and I will be to you for God;
5in order to cause to rise the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said, Amen, O Jehovah.
6And Jehovah said to me, Cry out all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant and do them.
7For admonishing I admonished your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, to this day rising early and admonishing, saying, Hear My voice.
8They did not hear and did not stretch out their ear, but each man walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. And I will bring on them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do, but they did not do.
9And Jehovah said to me, A plot is found among the men of Judah, and among those living in Jerusalem.
10They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My Word. And they went after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.
11Therefore Jehovah says this: Behold, I will bring evil on them from which they shall not be able to go forth from it. And though they cry to Me, I will not hear them.
12And the cities of Judah and those living in Jerusalem shall go and cry to the gods to whom they burned incense, to them. But they are not at all able to save them in the time of their evil.
13For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; yea, according to the number of the outside places of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the thing of shame, altars to burn incense to Baal.
14And you, do not pray for this people; and do not lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear in the time they cry to Me for their evil.
15What is to My beloved in My house, since she has done her many evils? And has the holy flesh caused your evil way to pass from you? Then do you exult?
16Jehovah called your name, a green olive tree, fair, with fine fruit. With the sound of a great roaring, He has set fire to it, and its branches are bad.
17And Jehovah of Hosts, who planted you, has spoken evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah which they have done to themselves, to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
18And Jehovah made me know, and I knew. And You made me see their doings.
19And I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had plotted schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.
20But, O Jehovah of Hosts who judges with righteousness, who tries the kidneys and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For to You I have revealed my cause.
21Therefore, so says Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that you do not die by our hand.
22So Jehovah of Hosts says this: Behold, I will call them to account. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.
23And there shall be no survivor of them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
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