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Olive Tree with Broken Branches

15 “What is My beloved doing in My House
    as she does evil schemes with many?
    Can holy meat prevent your disaster?
        So you may rejoice?
16 Adonai called your name—a leafy olive tree,[a]
        beautiful with well-formed fruit.
    With the noise of a great tumult
        He has set it on fire,
        and its branches are broken.

17 For Adonai-Tzva’ot, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves, provoking Me by offering sacrifices to Baal.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:16 cf. Rom. 11:17.