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Jeremiah 11:3

And say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Cursed be euery one that is not obedient vnto the words of this couenaunt,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Covenant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Curse, Divine;   Divine;   God;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Curses;   Disobedience;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Jeremiah;   Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Jeremiah (2);   Josiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cursing;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Let a curse be on the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
Hebrew Names Version
and say you to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,
King James Version
And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
English Standard Version
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant
New American Standard Bible
and say to them, 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: "Cursed is the one who does not obey the words of this covenant
New Century Version
Tell them this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the person who does not obey the words of this agreement
Amplified Bible
"Say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of this covenant
World English Bible
and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And say thou vnto them, Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the wordes of this couenant,
Legacy Standard Bible
and say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Cursed is the man who does not hear the words of this covenant
Berean Standard Bible
You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
Complete Jewish Bible
tell them that Adonai the God of Isra'el says: ‘A curse on anyone who does not pay attention to the words of this covenant,
Darby Translation
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant
Easy-to-Read Version
Tell them that this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Bad things will happen to anyone who does not obey this agreement.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall say to them. Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not obey the words of this covenant
Good News Translation
that I, the Lord God of Israel, have placed a curse on everyone who does not obey the terms of this covenant.
Lexham English Bible
and say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "The man is cursed who does not obey the words of this covenant,
Literal Translation
and say to them, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Cursed is the man who does not obey the Words of this covenant,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And saye thou vnto the: Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel: Cursed be euery one, that is not obedient vnto ye wordes of this couenaut:
American Standard Version
and say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant,
Bible in Basic English
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and say thou unto them: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant,
King James Version (1611)
And say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Cursed bee the man that obeyeth not the words of this Couenant,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Cursed is the man, who shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,
English Revised Version
and say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God of Israel seith these thingis, Cursid be the man that herith not the wordis of this couenaunt,
Update Bible Version
and say to them, This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Cursed be the man that does not hear the words of this covenant,
Webster's Bible Translation
And say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
New English Translation
Tell them that the Lord , the God of Israel, says, ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.
New King James Version
and say to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant
New Living Translation
Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: Cursed is anyone who does not obey the terms of my covenant!
New Life Bible
Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: "Cursed is the man who does not listen to the words of this agreement
New Revised Standard
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel: Cursed be anyone who does not heed the words of this covenant,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and say thou unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, - Accursed, is the man who will not hear the words of this covenant;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,
Revised Standard Version
You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heed the words of this covenant
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel: Cursed [is] the man who doth not obey the words of this covenant,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

Contextual Overview

1 This is a sermo which the Lorde commaunded Ieremie for to preache, saying: 2 Heare the wordes of this couenaunt and speake vnto the men of Iuda, and to all them that dwell at Hierusalem, 3 And say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Cursed be euery one that is not obedient vnto the words of this couenaunt, 4 Whiche I commaunded vnto your fathers, what time as I brought them out of Egypt from the iron furnace, saying: Be obedient vnto my voyce, and do according to all that I commaunde you, so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: 5 And wyll kepe my promise that I haue sworne vnto your fathers, [namelye] that I woulde geue them a lande whiche floweth with milke and honie, as ye see it is come to passe vnto this day. Then aunswered I and sayde, Amen: let it be euen so Lorde as thou sayest. 6 Then the Lord sayd vnto me againe: Preache this in the cities of Iuda, and rounde about Hierusalem, & say: Heare the wordes of this couenaunt, and kepe them. 7 For I haue diligently exhorted your fathers, euer since the tyme that I brought them out of the lande of Egypt vnto this day, I gaue them warning be times, saying: hearken vnto my voyce. 8 Neuerthelesse, they would not obey me, nor encline their eares vnto me: but folowed the wicked imaginations of their owne heartes, and therefore I haue brought vpon them al the wordes of this couenaunt that I gaue them to kepe, which they [notwithstanding] haue not kept. 9 And the Lorde sayde vnto me: it is founde out that whole Israel and all these cities of Hierusalem are gone backe. 10 They haue turned them selues to the blasphemies of their forefathers, which had no lust to heare my wordes: Euen lykewyse haue these also folowed straunge gods, and worshipped them: The house of Israel and Iuda haue broken my couenaunt whiche I made with their fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 27:26, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:19, Deuteronomy 29:20, Galatians 3:10-13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:15 - Cursed be

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do.
Genesis 11:7
Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg liued thirtie yeres, and begat Reu.
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slyme pyttes: and the kynges of Sodome and Gomorrhe fledde, and fell there, and they that remayned, fledde to the mountayne.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lyues bytter vnto them in that cruell bondage, in claye, and bricke, and all maner of worke in the fielde: for all their bondage wherein they serued them was ful of tirannie.
Exodus 2:3
And when she coulde no longer hyde hym, she toke a basket [made] of bull russhes, and dawbed it with slyme and pitche, and layed the chylde therein, and put it in the flagges by the riuers brinke
2 Samuel 12:31
And he caryed away the people that was therein, & put them vnder sawes, and vnder iron harrowes, and vnder axes of iron, & thrust them into the tylekyll: thus dyd he with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And so Dauid and al the people returned vnto Hierusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And say thou unto them,.... This shows that the command of publishing the law or covenant was, however, principally given to Jeremiah:

thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; that made them, and brought them out of Egypt, and made a covenant with them, and had taken care of them, and had bestowed many favours upon them:

cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant; which the prophet, it may be, had in his hands, even the book of the law, and held it forth unto them, while he was speaking; the language of which is, cursed is everyone that does not constantly and perfectly perform what is contained in it, Deuteronomy 27:26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 11:3. Cursed be the man that obeyeth not — After the reading, the prophet appears to sum up the things contained in what was read to them; as if he had said, "Ye hear what the Lord saith unto you: remember, the sum of it is this: The man is cursed who obeyeth not; and he is blessed who obeys. From these declarations God will not depart."


 
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