1The word that was on Jeremiah from before LORD JEHOVAH saying: 2“Hear the words of this covenant and say to the men of Judea and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem 3Say to them, ‘Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Cursed is the man that will not hear the words of this covenant 4Which I commanded to your fathers in the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, and I said: ‘Hear my voice, and you shall do everything that I shall command you, and you shall be to me a people, and I shall be God to you 5And I shall establish the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give you the land that flows milk and honey, as today’”, and I answered and I said, “Amen, LORD JEHOVAH!”

6And LORD JEHOVAH said to me: “Read all of these words in the villages of Judea, and in the streets of Jerusalem, and say: ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and you shall do them’ 7Because I testified to your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, and until today, I went before and I sent and I said: ’Listen to my voice’ 8And they did not listen, and they did not incline their ears, and they walked, every man, in the pleasures of their evil heart, and I brought all the words of this covenant upon them that I commanded them to hear, and they did not hear”

9And LORD JEHOVAH said to me: “A revolt was found among the men of Judea, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem 10They have turned to the first sin of their fathers, and they have not chosen to hear my words, and they went after other gods to serve them, and the children of Israel and the children of Yehuda destroyed my covenant that I covenanted with their fathers 11Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: “This evil I bring upon them, that they will not be able to go out from it, and they shall bellow out to me and I will not hear them 12And the villages of Judea and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go and they shall bellow out to the gods to which they have been offering incense, and they shall not deliver them in the time of their affliction 13Because your gods have been according to the number of your cities, Yehuda. By the number of the streets of Jerusalem, you set up altars for disgrace, altars to present incense to Baal

14And you shall not pray for this people, and you shall not make a request or a prayer for them, because I will not hear in the time that they cry to me, in the time of their affliction

15Why has my beloved committed much impurity in my house? They shall take away the flesh of holiness from you, because of your evil that has prevailed

16“Olive tree, thick and beautiful of fruit and beautiful of appearance”, LORD JEHOVAH called your name. With the voice of a great decree he set fire upon it, and you shall destroy its branches

17And LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts who planted you, speaks evil against you, because of the wickedness of the house of Israel, and of the house of Yehuda that they had done to themselves, to anger me, setting out incense for Baal

18LORD JEHOVAH, show me, and I shall know truly that you have shown me their works

19And I was like an innocent lamb that is led to slaughter, and I did not know that they plotted plots against me, and they said: ‘We shall destroy the tree with its food, and we will destroy it from the land of the living, and its name will not again be remembered’

20And LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, the Judge of truth, examines the kidneys and the heart. I shall see your payment from them, because to you I revealed my case

21Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH about the men of Anathoth who seek your soul, and they were saying: “You shall not prophecy in the Name of LORD JEHOVAH, that you will not die by our hands!” 22Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: “Behold, I command concerning the young men, ‘They shall die by the sword, and their children and their daughters shall die in famine 23And they will not have any remaining, because I bring evil on the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation