“For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.”
Jeremiah 11:17 (WEB)
Context Reading
15What has my beloved to do in my house,since she has behaved lewdly with many,and the holy flesh has passed from you?When you do evil,then you rejoice.” 16Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree,beautiful with goodly fruit.”With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it,and its branches are broken. 17For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. 18Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings. 19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,and let’s cut him off from the land of the living,that his name may be no more remembered.”