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.