15 (A)What right has my beloved in my house, (B)when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? (C)Can you then exult? 16 The Lord once called you (D)‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But (E)with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and (F)its branches will be consumed. 17 The Lord of hosts, (G)who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, (H)provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.”

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15 “What is my beloved doing in my temple
    as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?
    Can consecrated meat(A) avert your punishment?(B)
When you engage in your wickedness,
    then you rejoice.[a]

16 The Lord called you a thriving olive tree(C)
    with fruit beautiful in form.
But with the roar of a mighty storm
    he will set it on fire,(D)
    and its branches will be broken.(E)

17 The Lord Almighty, who planted(F) you, has decreed disaster(G) for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused(H) my anger by burning incense to Baal.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice