Jeremiah 11 (NET)

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Jeremiah 11:1¹The Lord said to Jeremiah:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 11:2²“Hear the terms of the covenant I made with Israel and pass them on to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 11:6 Exod 19:5 2 Chr 23:16 2 Chr 29:10 2 Chr 34:31 2 Kgs 11:17 2 Kgs 23:2-3 Jer 34:13-16

Jeremiah 11:3³Tell them that the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 27:26 Deut 28:15-68 Deut 29:19-20 Gal 3:10-13

Jeremiah 11:4⁴Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place that was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time, “Obey me and carry out the terms of the covenant exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 26:12 Deut 4:20 Jer 7:22-23 1 Kgs 8:51 2 Cor 6:16 Jer 24:7 Zech 8:8 Deut 11:27 Exod 24:3-8 Ezek 11:20

Jeremiah 11:5⁵Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.” That is the very land that you still live in today.’” And I responded, “Amen. Let it be so, Lord.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:12-13 Jer 28:6 Ps 105:9-11 1 Cor 14:16 Deut 27:15-26 Deut 6:3 Exod 13:5 Exod 3:8-17 Gen 22:16-18 Gen 26:3-5

Jeremiah 11:6⁶The Lord said to me, “Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:22 Rom 2:13 Jer 19:2 Jer 3:12 Jer 7:2 John 13:17 Isa 58:1 Jer 11:2-4 Ps 15:5 Zech 7:7

Jeremiah 11:7⁷For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:15 1 Sam 8:9 Eph 4:17 Exod 15:26 Exod 23:21-22 2 Thess 3:12 Deut 10:12-13 Deut 11:26-28 Deut 12:32 Deut 28:1-14

Jeremiah 11:8⁸But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:24 Jer 7:26 Ezek 20:8 Jer 3:17 Jer 35:15 Deut 28:15-68 Deut 29:21-24 Deut 30:17-19 Deut 31:17-18 Deut 32:20-26

Jeremiah 11:9⁹The Lord said to me, “The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have plotted rebellion against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 6:9 Acts 23:12-15 Ezek 22:25-31 Jer 5:31 Jer 6:13 Jer 8:10 John 11:53 Matt 21:38-39 Matt 26:15 Matt 26:3-4

Jeremiah 11:10¹⁰They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 31:16 Ezek 16:59 1 Sam 15:11 Jer 3:6-11 Judg 2:12-13 Judg 2:17 Judg 2:19 Ps 78:8-10 2 Chr 34:30-33 2 Kgs 17:7-20

Jeremiah 11:11¹¹So I, the Lord, say this: ‘I will soon bring disaster on them that they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 8:18 Isa 1:15 Prov 1:28 Mic 3:4 Zech 7:13 2 Kgs 22:16 Jer 14:12 Isa 24:17 Jer 11:17 Jer 6:19

Jeremiah 11:12¹²Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means be able to save them when disaster strikes them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:37 Jer 2:28 2 Chr 28:22 Isa 45:20 Judg 10:14 Jer 44:17-27

Jeremiah 11:13¹³This is in spite of the fact that the people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns and the citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many altars to sacrifice to that disgusting god, Baal, as they have streets in the city!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 2:28 2 Kgs 23:13 2 Kgs 21:4-5 2 Kgs 23:4-5 Deut 32:16-17 Hos 12:11 Isa 2:8 Jer 19:5 Jer 3:1-2 Jer 3:24

Jeremiah 11:14¹⁴But as for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not raise a cry of prayer for them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:16 Jer 11:11 1 John 5:16 Jer 14:11 Exod 32:10 Ps 66:18 Hos 5:6 Jer 15:1 Prov 26:24-25

Jeremiah 11:15¹⁵The Lord says to the people of Judah, “What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 2:14 Titus 1:15 1 Cor 13:6 Ezek 16:25-34 Ezek 23:2-21 Hag 2:12-14 Hos 3:1 Isa 1:11-15 Isa 50:1 Jas 4:16

Jeremiah 11:16¹⁶I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 11:17-24 Isa 27:11 Ps 52:8 Ps 80:16 Ezek 15:4-7 Ezek 20:47-48 Isa 1:30-31 Jer 21:14 John 15:6 Matt 3:10

Jeremiah 11:17¹⁷For though I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, planted you in the land, I now decree that disaster will come on you because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 5:2 Jer 12:2 Jer 2:21 Jer 19:15 2 Sam 7:10 Ezek 17:5 Isa 61:3 Jer 11:11 Jer 16:10-11 Jer 18:8

Jeremiah 11:18¹⁸The Lord gave me knowledge, that I might have understanding. Then he showed me what the people were doing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:11-12 2 Kgs 6:9-10 Ezek 8:6-18 2 Kgs 6:14-20 Jer 11:19 Rom 3:7

Jeremiah 11:19¹⁹Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him anymore.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 53:7-8 Jer 20:10 Ps 83:4 Jer 18:18 Job 28:13 Ps 31:13 Luke 20:10-15 Num 1:14 Ps 27:13 Ps 37:32-33

Jeremiah 11:20²⁰So I said, “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 20:12 Jer 17:10 1 Sam 16:7 Ps 7:9 Gen 18:25 Jer 15:15 Jer 17:18 Rev 2:23 1 Chr 29:17 Ps 10:14-15

Jeremiah 11:21²¹Then the Lord told me about some men from Anathoth who were threatening to kill me. They had threatened, “Stop prophesying in the name of the Lord or we will kill you!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 2:12 Isa 30:10 Jer 12:5-6 Jer 20:10 Luke 13:33-34 Acts 7:51-52 Amos 7:13-16 Jer 20:1-2 Jer 26:8 Jer 38:1-6

Jeremiah 11:22²²So the Lord of Heaven’s Armies said, “I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 18:21 1 Thess 2:15-16 2 Chr 36:17 Jer 9:21 Lam 2:21

Jeremiah 11:23²³Not one of them will survive. I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you. A day of reckoning is coming for them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:12 Hos 9:7 Jer 50:27 Luke 19:44 Mic 7:4 Isa 14:20-22 Jer 11:19 Jer 44:27 Jer 46:21 Jer 48:44