The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:7 (NKJV)
For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, “Obey My voice.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:8 (NKJV)
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done.’ ”

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:9 (NKJV)

And the Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:10 (NKJV)

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 11:11 (NIV)

Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape.
Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 11:12 (NIV)

The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense,
but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.

 

[Chester]

Jeremiah 11:13 KJV For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 11:14 (NIV)

‘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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:15 (NKJV)
“What has My beloved to do in My house, Having done lewd deeds with many? And the holy flesh has passed from you. When you do evil, then you rejoice.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:16 (ERV)
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 11:17 (NIV)

The Lord Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you,
because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 11:18 (NIV)

Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:19 (NKJV)
But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 11:20 (ESV)
But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.

 

[iTheophilus]

"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, 'Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand' —

- Jeremiah 11:21 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

- Jeremiah 11:22 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

'and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their punishment.' "

- Jeremiah 11:23 (NKJV)

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 12:1 (NIV)

You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice:
why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 12:2 (NIV)

You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 12:3 (NKJV)
But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me, And You have tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, And prepare them for the day of slaughter.