Jeremiah 11:16-18

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¹⁶The Lord named you
a flourishing olive tree,^(A)
beautiful with well-formed fruit.
He has set fire to it,
and its branches are consumed^[a]^(B)
with the sound of a mighty tumult.^(C)

¹⁷“The Lord of Armies who planted you^(D) has decreed disaster against you, because of the disaster^[b] the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves when they angered me by burning incense to Baal.”

¹⁸The Lord informed me, so I knew.
Then you helped me to see their deeds,

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Footnotes

11:16 Vg; MT reads broken
11:17 Or evil

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