Jeremiah 11:1–9

¹The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,↗

²“Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;↗

³and say to them, the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant,↗

⁴which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;↗

⁵that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.” Then I answered, and said, “Amen, LORD.”↗

⁶The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.↗

⁷For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”↗

⁸Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’”↗

⁹The LORD said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.↗