Jeremías 16:11

11 Entonces les responderás: “Esto es porque sus antepasados me abandonaron y se fueron tras otros dioses, y los sirvieron y los adoraron. Pero a mí me abandonaron, y no cumplieron mi ley —afirma el SEÑOR—.

Jeremías 16:11 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 16:11

Then shalt thou say unto them
In answer to their questions; not in a general way, but by observing to them particular sins, and those gross ones, they had been guilty of: because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord;
that is, his worship, as the Targum; they had quitted his service, and left attending on his word and ordinances; and therefore it was but just with him to forsake them, and give them up into the hands of their enemies: and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have
worshipped them;
were guilty of gross idolatry, serving and worshipping the creature more than and besides the Creator; even idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and wood, and stone, which were no gods; for there is no other true God besides the Lord; and which they were well informed of, and therefore their sin was the greater to leave him and worship them; and which sin, because of the heinousness of it, is repeated: and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
they forsook his worship, as the Targum, and did not observe the law of the decalogue or ten commandments; especially the two first of them, which required the worship of the one true God, and forbid the worshipping of others; and which threatened the visiting such iniquities of fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation, of such that hated the Lord; and such were these persons, as follows.

Jeremías 16:11 In-Context

9 Porque así dice el SEÑORTodopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: Voy a poner fin en este lugar a toda expresión de alegría y de regocijo, y al cántico del novio y de la novia. Esto sucederá en sus propios días, y ustedes lo verán.

10 »Cuando anuncies a este pueblo todas estas cosas, ellos te preguntarán: “¿Por qué ha decretado el SEÑOR contra nosotros esta calamidad tan grande? ¿Cuál es nuestra iniquidad? ¿Qué pecado hemos cometido contra el SEÑOR nuestro Dios?”

11 Entonces les responderás: “Esto es porque sus antepasados me abandonaron y se fueron tras otros dioses, y los sirvieron y los adoraron. Pero a mí me abandonaron, y no cumplieron mi ley —afirma el SEÑOR—.

12 Pero ustedes se han comportado peor que sus antepasados. Cada uno sigue la terquedad de su corazón malvado, y no me ha obedecido.

13 Por eso los voy a arrojar de esta tierra, a un país que ni ustedes ni sus antepasados conocieron, y allí servirán a otros dioses día y noche. No les tendré clemencia”.