which I commanded your fathers in the day when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying: Hear my voice and do all that I command you, and you shall be a people to me, and I will be a God to you,
that I may establish my oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: So be it, O Lord.
They have turned back to the iniquities of their former fathers, who would not hear my words; and behold, they themselves walk after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I am bringing evils upon this people, from which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry out to me, but I will not listen to them.
And the cities of Judah and those who dwell in Jerusalem shall go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense; but shall these save them in the time of their evils?
For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the exits of Jerusalem you set up altars to burn incense to Baal.
And you, do not pray for this people, and do not make request for them with supplication and prayer, for I will not listen at the time when they call upon me, in the time of their affliction.
A fair olive tree, well-shaded in form: so the Lord called your name. At the sound of its pruning a fire was kindled upon it, great is the affliction upon you, its branches have been made useless.
And the Lord who planted you has spoken evils against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, in that they did it to themselves, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
But I was like an innocent lamb led to be slaughtered; I did not know that they had devised an evil device against me, saying: Come, let us put wood into his bread, and let us wipe him out from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth who seek my life, who say: You shall not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or else you shall die by our hands.