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

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14 But as for you, Jeremiah,[a] do not pray for these people. Do not raise a cry of prayer for them.[b] For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:14 tn The name, Jeremiah, has been added for specificity.
  2. Jeremiah 11:14 sn Cf. Jer 7:16, where this same command is addressed to Jeremiah.
  3. Jeremiah 11:14 tc The rendering “when disaster strikes them” is based on reading “at the time of” (בְּעֵת, beʿet), with a number of Hebrew mss and the versions, instead of “on account of” (בְּעַד, beʿad). W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:347) is probably right in assuming that the MT has been influenced by “for them” (בַעֲדָם, vaʿadam) earlier in the verse.

14 “Do not pray(A) for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen(B) when they call to me in the time of their distress.

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