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14 As for you, you are not to pray for this people or lift up supplication or prayer for them, for I will not hear them at the time they cry to out to Me because of their disaster.”[a]

Olive Tree with Broken Branches

15 “What is My beloved doing in My House
    as she does evil schemes with many?
    Can holy meat prevent your disaster?
        So you may rejoice?
16 Adonai called your name—a leafy olive tree,[b]
        beautiful with well-formed fruit.
    With the noise of a great tumult
        He has set it on fire,
        and its branches are broken.

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14 “Do not pray(A) for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen(B) when they call to me in the time of their distress.

15 “What is my beloved doing in my temple
    as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?
    Can consecrated meat(C) avert your punishment?(D)
When you engage in your wickedness,
    then you rejoice.[a]

16 The Lord called you a thriving olive tree(E)
    with fruit beautiful in form.
But with the roar of a mighty storm
    he will set it on fire,(F)
    and its branches will be broken.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice