1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh:
2 Say to the men of Jerusalem:
3 Cursed be the man who does not heed the terms of this covenant
4 which I ordained for your fathers the day I freed them from that cleansing furnace that Egypt is. I said to them: 'If you obey my voice and do all that I command you, you will be my people and I will be your God.
5 Then I will fulfill the promise I swore to your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey,' (as it is today)." I replied, "Amen, Yahweh."
6 Yahweh said to me, "Publish what I say in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, 'Hear the terms of this covenant and keep them.
7 When I brought your forefathers out of Egypt, I solemnly warned them and have continued to tell them: 'Obey me.'
8 But they did not listen to me or heed what I said; each one followed his own stubborn heart. So I fulfilled against them all the words of this covenant that I had commanded them, but which they did not follow."
9 Yahweh said to me, "There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey me; they have followed and served foreign gods. The nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers."
11 That is why Yahweh says to you, "I will bring upon them a disaster from which there will be no escape. When they cry to me I will not listen.
12 Then the cities of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying to the gods they worship, but these will not help them in the time of misfortune.
13 For you, Judah, have as many gods as there are cities; as numerous as the streets in Jerusalem are the altars you have raised to Baal."
14 For your part, do not intercede for this people, nor offer a plea or petition because I will not listen when they cry to me in the time of their distress.
15 What is my beloved doing in my House? She is plotting evil deeds. Will your vows and the meat of your victims cleanse you from your wickedness and allow you to rejoice? Yahweh had called you
16 'Beautiful Green Olive Tree - fair and fruitful!' But with the roar of a storm, its foliage took fire and its branches were broken.
17 And Yahweh, God of host, who planted you, has condemned to shame. Indeed the nation of the Israel and the nation of Jacob harmed themselves when they worshiped Baal and aroused my anger.
18 Yahweh made it known to me and so I know! And you let me see their scheming: (126) "Take care, even your own brothers and family are false with you and behind your back they freely criticize you. Do not trust them when they approach you in a friendly way."
19 But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me that they were plotting, "Let us feed him with trials and remove him from the land of the living and let his name never be mentioned again."
20 Yahweh, God of hosts, you who judge with justice and know everyone in his heart and in his intentions, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause.
21 This is what Yahweh has to say against the people of Anathoth who threatened me with death and said, "Do not prophesy any more in the name of Yahweh and we will spare your life."
22 Yahweh says to them, "This is how I will punish you: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die of hunger.
23 No one will survive when I bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment."
Versículos relacionados com Jeremiah, 11:
Jeremiah 11 deals with the covenant God made with the people of Israel and their infidelity to fulfill the terms of this covenant. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in this chapter, in order of proximity to the themes:
Deuteronomy 28:9: "The Lord will confirm to you as a holy people, how you swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in your ways." This verse speaks of God's promise to bless and protect his people if they kept their commandments and follow their ways.
Leviticus 26:15-16: "And if you do not hear me and do not fulfill all these commandments, if you despise my statutes and your soul tire of my judgments, so that you do not want to fulfill all my commandments, thus nullifying mine Covenant, I will do this: I will put upon you the terror, his scholars, and the burning fever, who will consume the eyes and to define the soul; and shall sow in vain your seed, for your enemies will eat it. " This verse speaks of the consequences of disobedience to the covenant with God, including disease and crop failure.
Deuteronomy 28:15: "Is it that if you do not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all your commandments and statutes that I command you today, all these curses will come upon you, and will reach you." This verse speaks of the curses that God would bring about His people if they did not obey His covenant.
Ezekiel 16:59-60: "For thus says the Lord God, I will do to you as you did, who despised the oath, violating the covenant. However, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and establish an eternal covenant with you . " This verse speaks of God's faithfulness to his covenant, even when his people do not fulfill it, and his promise of an eternal covenant with them.
Psalm 25:10: "All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to those who keep their covenant and their testimonies." This verse speaks of the importance of obedience to the covenant with God and the promise of mercy and truth to those who keep it.
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