Jeremiah 11:11

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Therefore thus says Yahweh, "I am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them. ¹² Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble. ¹³ For the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful things, to make smoke offerings to Baal. ¹⁴ Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble. ¹⁵ What rights has my beloved in my house when she has done many wicked things? Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For you engage in your wickedness, then you exult. ¹⁶ Yahweh called your name, ‘A leafy olive tree, beautiful with fine fruit.' With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing. ¹⁷ And Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you, has spoken evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, that they have done to themselves, to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal."

Bible Verse Review
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I will bring: Jeremiah 11:17, Jeremiah 6:19, Jeremiah 19:3, Jeremiah 19:15, Jeremiah 23:12, Jeremiah 35:17, Jeremiah 36:31, 2 Kings 22:16, 2 Chronicles 34:24, Ezekiel 7:5

which: Jeremiah 15:2, Proverbs 29:1, Isaiah 24:17, Amos 2:14, Amos 2:15, Amos 5:19, Amos 9:1-4, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Hebrews 1:3, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 6:17

escape: Heb. go forth of

cry: Jeremiah 14:12, Psalms 18:41, Psalms 66:18, Proverbs 1:28, Isaiah 1:15, Ezekiel 8:18, Micah 3:4, Zechariah 7:13, Luke 13:24-28

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:3 - My Job 27:9 - Will God Job 35:13 - God Jeremiah 11:14 - for Jeremiah 14:2 - the cry Ezekiel 14:3 - should Hosea 5:6 - they John 9:31 - we know James 4:3 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth."

Genesis 9:7
"And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it."

Genesis 11:3
And they said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

Genesis 11:32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, I will bring evil upon them,.... The evil of punishment for the evil of their sins, such as famine, the sword, captivity, which latter is the evil more especially designed; and there is no evil of this nature but what is of God; it is of his sending and bringing; see Amos 3:6:

which they shall not be able to escape; they should not have wisdom enough to form a scheme, nor power enough to put one in execution when formed, whereby they could extricate themselves out of the difficulties they would be in; doubtless reference is had to their being besieged by the Chaldean army, the evil that should come out of the north, Jeremiah 1:14, which should so closely surround them, that none should escape:

and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them: because their prayers were hypocritical, and not attended with faith and true repentance; otherwise, when men cry to God, under a sense of sin, being truly sorry for it, and put their trust in him, he hears them, and delivers them; but these would be concerned only for the evil that was come upon them, and not the evil they had been guilty of; and such sinners, when they pray to him, the Lord hears not. The Targum is,

"and they shall pray before me, and I will not receive their prayers.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will bring - Or, am bringing.