¹⁴ 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.

¹⁶ And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.

¹¹ So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

¹⁶ If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

¹⁰ Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

¹⁸ I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

⁶ They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

²⁴ With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

²⁵ When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils: