Jeremias 11:14

14 “E você, Jeremias, não ore em favor deste povo nem ofereça súplica ou petição alguma por eles, porque eu não ouvirei quando clamarem a mim na hora da desgraça.

Jeremias 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.

Jeremias 11:14 In-Context

12 Então as cidades de Judá e os habitantes de Jerusalém clamarão aos deuses aos quais queimam incenso, mas eles não poderão salvá-los quando a desgraça os atingir.

13 Você tem tantos deuses quantas são as suas cidades, ó Judá; e os altares que você construiu para queimar incenso àquela coisa vergonhosa chamada Baal são tantos quantas são as ruas de Jerusalém.

14 “E você, Jeremias, não ore em favor deste povo nem ofereça súplica ou petição alguma por eles, porque eu não ouvirei quando clamarem a mim na hora da desgraça.

15 “O que a minha amada faz no meu templocom intenção enganosa?Será que os votos e a carne consagrada evitarão o castigo?Poderá você, então, exultar?”

16 O SENHOR a chamou de oliveira verdejante,ornada de belos e bons frutos.Mas, com o estrondo de um grande tumulto,ele a incendiará,e os seus ramos serão quebrados.