1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:2Hear the words of this covenant and speak them to the man of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.3And you shall say to them: Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who does not hear the words of this covenant4which I commanded your fathers on the day I brought them out from the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear my voice and do them according to all that I command you, so that you may be to me for a people and I may be to you for God,5in order to establish the oath that I swore to your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, Amen, O LORD.6And the LORD said to me: Call 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 against your fathers on the day I brought them up from the land of Egypt and until this day, rising early and testifying, saying: Hear my voice.8Yet they did not hear and did not incline their ear, but each man walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant that I commanded to do, but they did not do them.9And the LORD said to me: A conspiracy is found among the man of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.10They have returned to the iniquities of their first fathers who refused to hear my words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I cut with their fathers.11Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am bringing upon them distress from which they will not be able to go out; they will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.12And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn offerings, but they will not save them in the time of their distress.13For the number of your cities has become the number of your gods, O Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set altars to shame, altars to burn to Baal.14And as for you, do not pray for this people and do not lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I am not hearing when they call to me in the time of their distress.15What to my beloved in my house when she has done her many plots? Holy flesh has passed from you; when your distress comes, then you will exult.16A luxuriant olive tree, beautiful in fruit of form, the LORD called your name; at the sound of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are shattered.17And the LORD of hosts who planted you has spoken against you disaster because of the distress of the house of Israel and the house of Judah that they have done to provoke me by burning to Baal.