The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out. For I strongly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt until today, warning them time and time again,[a](A) ‘Obey My voice.’ Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart.(B) So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:7 Lit today, rising early and warning

The Lord said to me, “Proclaim(A) all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow(B) them. From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again,(C) saying, “Obey me.” But they did not listen or pay attention;(D) instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts.(E) So I brought on them all the curses(F) of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.(G)’”

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