Jeremiah 11:1-8 ▼

1 The LORD said to Jeremiah:

2 |Hear the terms of the covenant I made with Israel and pass them on to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem.

3 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.

4 Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time, |Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.

5 Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.| That is the very land that you still live in today.'| And I responded, |Amen! Let it be so, LORD!|

6 The LORD said to me, |Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: 'Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out!

7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.

8 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.'|