13 For your gods are [a](A)as many as your cities, Judah; and [b]as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the (B)shameful thing, altars for [c](C)burning incense to Baal.

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

15 What right has My (F)beloved in My house
When (G)she has carried out many evil schemes?
Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster,
[d]So that you can rejoice?”

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  1. Jeremiah 11:13 Lit the number of
  2. Jeremiah 11:13 Lit the number of
  3. Jeremiah 11:13 Or offering sacrifices to
  4. 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