1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:2Hear the words of this covenant, and speak them to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.3You shall say to them, The LORD God of Israel says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant.4which I commanded your fathers on the day I brought them out from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying, "Hear my voice and do them, all which I command you, and you shall be to me for a people and I will be to you for a god."5in order to fulfill the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. And I will respond and say, "Amen, LORD."6And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, 'Hear the words of this covenant and do them.'"7For I testified to your fathers on the day I brought them up from the land of Egypt until this day, rising early and testifying, saying, "Obey my voice."8And they did not hear or incline their ear, but they walked, each man in the stubbornness of his heart, in the evil, and I brought upon them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do, and they did not do.9And the LORD said to me: "A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem."10They have returned to the iniquities of their first fathers, who refused to hear the words of the LORD. They went after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant that I cut with their fathers.11Therefore the LORD says: Look, I am bringing disaster on them, disaster they will not be able to escape. They will cry out to me, but I will not listen to them.12And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are burning incense, and they will not save them at the time of their evil.13for according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah, and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that Shame, you have set up altars to make incense to Baal.14And you, do not intercede for this people and do not lift up for them ringing cry and prayer, for I am not hearing at the time of their calling to me for their evil/calamity.15What is to my beloved in my house? You have done the many and the flesh of holiness—they will pass over you. For then your moral evil you will exult.16The LORD called you an olive lush with beautiful fruit splendor. At the voice of a great uproar he kindled fire upon it and mangled its branches.17And the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has spoken evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, to make incense to Baal.