16 The Lord called your name,
aGreen Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit.
With the noise of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are broken.
aGreen Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit.
With the noise of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are broken.
17 “For the Lord of hosts, awho planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”
Jeremiah’s Life Threatened
18 Now the Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings.
19 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, aand let us cut him off from bthe land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
20 But, O Lord of hosts,
You who judge righteously,
aTesting the1 mind and the heart,
Let me see Your bvengeance on them,
For to You I have revealed my cause.
You who judge righteously,
aTesting the1 mind and the heart,
Let me see Your bvengeance on them,
For to You I have revealed my cause.
21 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of aAnathoth who seek your life, saying, b‘Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, lest you die by our hand’—
22 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 adie by famine;
23 and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even athe year of their punishment.’ ”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Adam Clarke for Jeremiah 11:18.
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