Jeremiah:11:1-17

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* The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias , saying : * Hear ye the words of this covenant , and speak to the men of Juda , and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem , * And thou shalt say to them : Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel : Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of yethis covenant , * Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt , from the iron furnace , saying : Hear ye my voice , and do all things that I command you : and you shall be my people , and I will be your God : * That I may accomplish 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 Lord . * And the Lord said to me : Proclaim aloud all these words in the cities of Juda , and in the streets of Jerusalem , saying : Hear ye the words of the covenant , and do them : * For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day : rising early I conjured them , and said : Hearken ye to my voice : * And they obeyed not , nor inclined their ear : but walked every one in the perverseness of his own wicked heart : and I brought upon them all the words of this covenant , which I commanded them to do , but they did them not . * And the Lord said to me : A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda , and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers , who refused to hear my words : so these likewise have gone after strange gods , to serve them : the house of Israel , and the house of Juda have made void my covenant , which I made with their fathers . * Wherefore thus saith the Lord : Behold I will bring in evils upon them , which they shall not be able to escape : and they shall cry to me , and I will not hearken to them . * And the cities of Juda , and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go , and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice , and they shall not save them in the time of their affliction . * For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods , O Juda : and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up altars of confusion , altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim . * Therefore , do not thou pray for this people , and do not take up praise and prayer for them : for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me , in the time of their affliction . * What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought muck wickedness in my house ? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes , in which thou hast boasted ? * The Lord called thy name , a plentiful olive tree , fair , fruitful , and beautiful : at the noise of a word , a great fire was kindled in it and the branches thereof are burnt . * And the Lord of hosts that planted thee , hath pronounced evil against thee : for the evils of the house of Israel , and the house of Juda , which they have done to themselves , to provoke me , offering sacrifice to Baalim .

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