30 You were patient with them for many years,
and Your Spirit warned them through Your prophets,(A)
but they would not listen.
Therefore, You handed them over to the surrounding peoples.(B)

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30 For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets.(A) Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.(B)

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Listen, My people, and I will admonish you.
Israel, if you would only listen to Me!(A)
There must not be a strange god among you;
you must not bow down to a foreign god.(B)
10 I am Yahweh your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.(C)
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.(D)

11 “But My people did not listen to Me;
Israel did not obey Me.(E)

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Hear me, my people,(A) and I will warn you—
    if you would only listen to me, Israel!
You shall have no foreign god(B) among you;
    you shall not worship any god other than me.
10 I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of Egypt.(C)
Open(D) wide your mouth and I will fill(E) it.

11 “But my people would not listen to me;
    Israel would not submit to me.(F)

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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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