Jeremiah 11:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 What should my [a]beloved tarry in mine house, seeing they have committed abomination with many, and the holy flesh [b]goeth away from thee: yet when thou doest evil, thou rejoicest.
16 The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: but with [c]noise and great tumult he hath set fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced a plague against thee, for the wickedness of the house of Israel, and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal,
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- Jeremiah 11:15 My people of Israel, whom I have hitherto so greatly loved.
- Jeremiah 11:15 Meaning, that they offer not in the Temple to God, but on the altars of Baal and the idols, and so rejoiced in their wickedness.
- Jeremiah 11:16 Of the Babylonians and Chaldeans.
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