Jeremiah 14:11 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 14:11

Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

KJV

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ASV

And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

WEB

Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.

YLT

And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,

DBT

And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Jeremiah 15:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Jeremiah 7:16
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah 11:14
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
Ezekiel 14:14
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

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10 ), but it forbade them to expect any good effect from it as long as they turned away their ear from hearing the law. Thus was the doom of the impenitent ratified, as that of Saul's rejection was by that word to Samuel, When wilt thou cease to mourn for Saul?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

However, it is plain, by the prayers we find in these verses, that the prophet did not understand it as a prohibition, but only as a discouragement, like that 1 John

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 14:11JER 15:1 JER 11:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JER 14:11JER 15:1 EZE 14:14
JER 14:11JER 15:1 EZE 14:20-21
JER 14:11JER 15:1 PSA 106:23
JER 14:11JER 15:1 JER 7:15-16
JER 14:11JER 11:14 JER 7:16
JER 14:11EXO 32:10 DEU 9:14
JER 14:11JER 11:14 JER 11:11

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