Jeremiah 11:14

NETBible

So, Jeremiah, 1  do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. 2  For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.” 3 

NIV ©

"Do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.

NASB ©

"Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

NLT ©

"Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me in distress.

MSG ©

"And as for you, Jeremiah, I don't want you praying for this people. Nothing! Not a word of petition. Indeed, I'm not going to listen to a single syllable of their crisis-prayers."

BBE ©

And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

NRSV ©

As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

NKJV ©

"So do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble.

KJV
Therefore pray
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not thou for this people
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neither lift up
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a cry
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or prayer
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for them: for I will not hear
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[them] in the time
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that they cry
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unto me for their trouble
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{trouble: Heb. evil}
NASB ©
"Therefore do not pray
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for this
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people
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, nor
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lift
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up a cry
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or prayer
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for them; for I will not listen
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when
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they call
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to Me because
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of their disaster
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.
LXXM
kai
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CONJ
su
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P-NS
mh
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ADV
proseucou
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V-PMD-2S
peri
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PREP
tou
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T-GSM
laou
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N-GSM
toutou
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D-GSM
kai
<2532> 
CONJ
mh
<3165> 
ADV
axiou
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V-PMD-2S
peri
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PREP
autwn
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D-GPM
en
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PREP
dehsei
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N-DSF
kai
<2532> 
CONJ
proseuch
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N-DSF
oti
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CONJ
ouk
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ADV
eisakousomai
<1522> 
V-FMI-1S
en
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PREP
tw
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T-DSM
kairw
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N-DSM
en
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PREP
w
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R-DSM
epikalountai {V-PMI-3P} me
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P-AS
en
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PREP
kairw
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N-DSM
kakwsewv
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N-GSF
autwn
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D-GPM
NET [draft] ITL
So, Jeremiah, do not
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pray
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for
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these
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people
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. Do not
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cry out
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to me or petition
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me on their behalf. Do not plead
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with
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me to save them. For
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I will not
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listen
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to them when
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they call out
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to
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me for help when
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disaster
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strikes them.”
HEBREW
o
Mter
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deb
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yla
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Marq
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teb
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ems
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ynnya
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yk
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hlptw
<08605>
hnr
<07440>
Mdeb
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avt
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law
<0408>
hzh
<02088>
Meh
<05971>
deb
<01157>
llptt
<06419>
la
<0408>
htaw (11:14)
<0859>
NETBible

So, Jeremiah, 1  do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. 2  For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.” 3 

NET Notes

1 tn Heb “you.”

2 tn The words “to save them” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

2 sn Cf. Jer 7:16 where this same command is addressed to Jeremiah.

3 tc The rendering “when disaster strikes them” is based on reading “at the time of” (בְּעֵת, bÿ’et) with a number of Hebrew mss and the versions instead of “on account of” (בְּעַד, bÿ’ad). W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:347) is probably right in assuming that the MT has been influenced by “for them” (בַעֲדָם, va’adam) earlier in the verse.