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.

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.

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 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.

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.

¹⁴ Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

⁴ Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

¹⁴ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.

¹⁵ Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

¹⁶ Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves, and the land would be made waste.

¹⁷ Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:

¹⁸ Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves.

¹⁹ Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:

²⁰ Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness.

²⁰ Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

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

¹² When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁸ And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.