13. For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah. And according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
14. Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear them in the time that they cry to Me because of their trouble.
15. What right has My beloved in My house,seeing that she has done many lewd deeds?Can the sacrificial meat take away from you your disaster,so that you can rejoice while doing evil?
16. The Lord called your name,“A green olive tree, fair in fruit and form.”With the noise of a great tumultHe has kindled fire upon it,and its branches are broken.
17. For the Lord of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.
18. The Lord has made it known to me and I knew it; then You showed me their deeds.
19. But I was like a gentle lamb that is brought to the slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit,and let us cut him off from the land of the livingso that his name may be remembered no more.”