Jeremiah 11:11-17

¹¹Therefore this is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry out to Me, I will not listen to them. ¹²Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they certainly will not save them in the time of their disaster. ¹³For your gods are as many as your cities, Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars for burning incense to Baal.

¹⁴“So as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

15“What right has My beloved in My house

When she has carried out many evil schemes?

Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster,

So that you can rejoice?”

16The Lord named you

“A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form”;

With the noise of a great tumult

He has set fire to it,

And its branches are worthless.

¹⁷The Lord of armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me by offering sacrifices to Baal.