¹The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying:

²Hear the words of this covenant, and speak them to the men of Judah and to those who dwell in Jerusalem.

³Say to them: This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not hear the words of this covenant,

⁴that I commanded your fathers on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying: Listen to my voice and do them, according to all that I command you; and you shall be a people to me, and I will be God to you,

⁵so that I may establish the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as on this day. And I answered and said: Truly, Yahweh.

⁶And Yahweh said to me: Call out 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 solemnly warned your fathers on the day I brought them up from the land of Egypt, and until this day, rising early and warning, saying: Listen to my voice.

⁸And they did not listen, and did not incline their ear, but each one walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart; and I brought on them all the words of this covenant that I commanded them to do, and they did not do them.

⁹And Yahweh said to me: A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among those who dwell in Jerusalem.

¹⁰They have turned back to the guilt of their fathers, the former ones, who refused to hear my words; and they have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I cut with their fathers.

¹¹Therefore this is what Yahweh says: Look, I am bringing on them a disaster that they will not be able to come out of it; and they will cry out to me, and I will not listen to them.

¹²And the cities of Judah and those who dwell in Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they make smoke, but they will surely not save them in the time of their disaster.

¹³For your gods have been as many as your cities, O Judah; and you have set up altars to the shameful thing as many as the streets of Jerusalem, altars for making smoke to the Baal.

¹⁴And you, do not pray on behalf of this people, and do not lift up on their behalf a ringing cry or a prayer; for I am not listening at the time they call to me about their disaster.

¹⁵What has my beloved in my house, as she carries out the scheme of the many? Will holy flesh pass away from you? When your evil is done, then you exult.

¹⁶A leafy olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form, Yahweh called your name; at the sound of a great roar he has kindled a fire on it, and its branches are spoiled.

¹⁷And Yahweh of hosts, who planted you has spoken disaster against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they did to themselves, provoking me to anger by making smoke to the Baal.

¹⁸And Yahweh made me know, and I knew; then you showed me their deeds.

¹⁹But I was like a tame lamb led to slaughter, and I did not know that against me they reckoned schemes: Let us ruin the tree with its food, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, and his name will not be remembered any more.

²⁰But O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteousness, who tests the kidneys and the heart: let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have uncovered my dispute.

²¹Therefore this is what Yahweh says about the men of Anathoth who are seeking your being, saying: You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, so you will not die by our hand.

²²Therefore this is what Yahweh of hosts says: Look, I am about to visit upon them: the young men will die by the sword; their sons and their daughters will die by famine.

²³And there will be no remnant for them, for I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation.