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13 For your gods are (A)the number of your cities, O Judah; and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the (B)shameful thing, altars to (C)burn incense to Baal.

14 “But as for you, (D)do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them; for I will (E)not listen when they call to Me because of their calamity.

15 What possession has My (F)beloved in My house
When (G)she has done many schemes of wickedness?
Can the flesh, which is set apart as holy, take away from you your calamity,
[a]So that you can exult?”

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  1. Jeremiah 11:15 Lit Then

13 You, Judah, have as many gods(A) as you have towns;(B) and the altars you have set up to burn incense(C) to that shameful(D) god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

14 “Do not pray(E) for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen(F) when they call to me in the time of their distress.

15 “What is my beloved doing in my temple
    as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?
    Can consecrated meat(G) avert your punishment?(H)
When you engage in your wickedness,
    then you rejoice.[a]

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  1. Jeremiah 11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice

13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

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