Jeremías 11:14

14 »Jeremías, no ores más por este pueblo. No llores ni pidas por ellos porque yo no los escucharé cuando clamen a mí en su angustia.

Jeremías 11:14 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 11:14

Therefore pray not thou for this people
If for a remnant among them, yet not for the body of the people; and if for their spiritual and eternal good, yet not for their temporal salvation; their temporal ruin was certain; the decree was gone forth, and there was no revoking it; and this is said, not so much by way of prohibition of the prophet, as by way of threatening to the people, to show that as their own prayers should not profit them, so they should not have the benefit of the prayers of good men, their sin was a sin unto death, at least temporal death, and must not be prayed for, ( 1 John 5:16 ) : neither lift up a cry or prayer for them;
more words are used, to show the divine resolution, how inexorable he was, and how desperate was their condition, and their ruin sure; these words are repeated from ( Jeremiah 7:16 ) : for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their
trouble;
for, as he would not hear their prayers when they should cry to him to be delivered from their trouble, it cannot be thought that he should hear the prayers of others for them, The Targum understands this of the prayers of the prophet for them, paraphrasing the words thus,

``for there is no acceptance before me (or it is not pleasing to me) when thou shall pray for them before me, in the time of their evil;''

neither their prayers, nor the prophet's for them, would be acceptable to God, or of any avail, he being determined to bring evil upon them.

Jeremías 11:14 In-Context

12 Entonces los habitantes de Judá y Jerusalén clamarán a sus ídolos y quemarán incienso ante ellos. ¡Pero los ídolos no los salvarán cuando caiga el desastre!

13 Miren ahora, gente de Judá: ustedes tienen tantos dioses como ciudades. Tienen tantos altares vergonzosos —altares para quemar incienso a su dios Baal— como calles hay en Jerusalén.

14 »Jeremías, no ores más por este pueblo. No llores ni pidas por ellos porque yo no los escucharé cuando clamen a mí en su angustia.

15 »¿Qué derecho tiene mi amado pueblo de ir a mi templo
cuando ha cometido tantas inmoralidades?
¿Acaso sus votos y sacrificios pueden evitar su destrucción?
¡En realidad se alegran en hacer lo malo!

16 Yo, el Señor
, antes los llamaba olivo frondoso,
hermoso a la vista y lleno de buen fruto.
Pero ahora he enviado el furor de sus enemigos
para quemarlos con fuego
y dejarlos carbonizados y quebrantados.