14 “Therefore (A)do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, (B)for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble. 15 (C)What right has my beloved in my house, (D)when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? (E)Can you then exult? 16 The Lord once called you (F)‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But (G)with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and (H)its branches will be consumed. 17 The Lord of hosts, (I)who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, (J)provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.”

18 The Lord made it known to me and I knew;
    then you showed me their deeds.
19 But I was (K)like a gentle lamb
    led to the slaughter.
I did not know (L)it was against me
    they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
    (M)let us cut him off from (N)the land of the living,
    that his name be remembered no more.”
20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
    who (O)tests (P)the heart and the mind,
(Q)let me see your vengeance upon them,
    for to you have I committed my cause.

21 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of (R)Anathoth, (S)who seek your life, and say, (T)“Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand”— 22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine, 23 and none of them shall be left. For I will bring disaster upon the men of (U)Anathoth, (V)the year of their punishment.”

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