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16 Yahweh called your name, ‘A leafy olive tree, beautiful with fine fruit.’[a]
With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it,
    and its branches will be good for nothing.
17 And Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you,
    has spoken evil against you,
because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
    that they have done to themselves,
to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal.”

A Warning for the People of Anathoth

18 Moreover, Yahweh let it be made known to me, and I knew.
    Then you showed me their deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:16 Literally “beautiful of fruit of appearance”