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15 What rights has my beloved in my house[a]
    when she has done many wicked things?[b]
Can the flesh of holiness pass over you?
    For you engage in your wickedness,[c] then you exult.
16 Yahweh called your name, ‘A leafy olive tree, beautiful with fine fruit.’[d]
With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it,
    and its branches will be good for nothing.
17 And Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you,
    has spoken evil against you,
because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
    that they have done to themselves,
to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal.”

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  1. Jeremiah 11:15 Literally “What for my beloved in my house”
  2. Jeremiah 11:15 Hebrew “wicked thing”
  3. Jeremiah 11:15 Literally “your wickedness”
  4. Jeremiah 11:16 Literally “beautiful of fruit of appearance”

15 What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done vile deeds? Can vows[a] and sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?(A) 16 The Lord once called you, “A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit,” but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.(B) 17 The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.(C)

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  1. 11.15 Gk: Heb Can many