Jeremiah 7:16

7:16 Then the Lord said, 1  “As for you, Jeremiah, 2  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, 3  because I will not listen to you.

Jeremiah 11:14

11:14 So, Jeremiah, 4  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. 5  For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.” 6 

1 tn The words “Then the Lord said” are not in the text but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Heb “As for you.” The personal name Jeremiah is supplied in the translation for clarity.

3 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.

4 tn Heb “you.”

5 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.

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

6 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.