16. The Lord called you “a leafy olive tree,with beautiful fruit and shape.”But with the roar of a strong stormhe will set that tree on fire,and its branches will be burned up.
17. The Lord All-Powerful, who planted you, has announced that disaster will come to you. This is because the families of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made him angry by burning incense to Baal.
18. The Lord showed me that people were making plans against me. Because he showed me what they were doing, I knew they were against me.
19. Before this, I was like a gentle lamb waiting to be butchered. I did not know they had made plans against me, saying:“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit.Let’s kill him so people will forget him.”
20. But, Lord All-Powerful, you are a fair judge.You know how to test peoples’ hearts and minds.I have told you what I have against them.So let me see you give them the punishment they deserve.
21. So the Lord speaks about the people from Anathoth who plan to kill Jeremiah and say, “Don’t prophesy in the name of the Lord, or we will kill you!”
22. So this is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “I will soon punish the men from Anathoth. Their young men will die in war. Their sons and daughters will die from hunger.
23. No one from the city of Anathoth will be left alive, because I will cause a disaster to happen to them that year.”