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Jeremiah 11:17
The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through Jeremiah to the houses of Israel and Judah immediately after warning them of being consumed by fire like a flourishing olive tree. The declaration occurs at the precise moment of divine pronouncement, just before Yahweh reveals their specific deeds to the prophet.
The words — הַ/נוֹטֵ֣עַ (ha./no.Te.a') translates as "who planted," and דִּבֶּ֥ר (di.Ber) translates as "he has spoken." The text establishes divine origin through the planting metaphor before declaring the spoken decree of disaster.
The thread — The planting metaphor runs through Isaiah 5:2, where God prepares the ground for vines, Jeremiah 2:21, where God notes the choice seed He placed in them, and Jeremiah 12:2, where God acknowledges He planted them and they took root. These passages trace a consistent pattern of divine establishment preceding human response.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that disaster arrived because the people provoked anger through Baal worship. It requires the reader to acknowledge that self-inflicted evil, not arbitrary force, triggered the spoken judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
- Jeremiah 2:21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- Jeremiah 12:2 You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
- Jeremiah 19:15 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
- 2 Samuel 7:10 And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
- Psalms 44:2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- Psalms 80:8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- Psalms 80:15 the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
- Isaiah 61:3 to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
- Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,