Jeremiah 11 in the early church

[Vulgate: Jeremias]

91 passages quote, allude to, or echo Jeremiah 11, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

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Jeremiah 11:1

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Jer 11:1Homilies on Jeremiah 9, title · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:1Homilies on Jeremiah 9.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:1–3Commentary on Jeremiah 2.97 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:2

“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

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Jer 11:2Homilies on Jeremiah 9, title · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:2Homilies on Jeremiah 9.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:2Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 11:3

You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

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Jer 11:3Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:3Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:3–6Commentary on Jeremiah 2.99 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’

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Jer 11:4Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:4Homilies on Jeremiah 9.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:4Exposition of Psalm 118 20.11.1 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 386-397

Jeremiah 11:5

This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

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Jer 11:5Homilies on Jeremiah 9.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:5Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

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Jer 11:6Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 11:7

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’

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Jer 11:7–12Commentary on Jeremiah 2.103 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:8

Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

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Jer 11:8Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 11:9

And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

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Jer 11:9Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 11:10

They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

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Jer 11:10Homilies on Jeremiah 9, title · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:10Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:10Demonstration 12.11 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

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Jer 11:11Against Marcion 2.24 · Tertullianquotation, medium confidence207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Jer 11:11The Conferences 6.6 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Jeremiah 11:13

Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

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Jer 11:13The Instructor 1.9.76 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Jer 11:13Preparation for the Gospel 9.39.2 · Eusebius of Caesareaecho, medium confidenceca. 313–324
Jer 11:13Commentary on Jeremiah 1.38 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 414-419
Jer 11:13Commentary on Jeremiah 2.106 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:14

As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.

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Jer 11:14On Modesty 2 · Tertullianquotation, high confidenceca. 210–220
Jer 11:14On the Lapsed 19 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidence251
Jer 11:14To Fortunatus 4 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidence253 or 257
Jer 11:14Commentary on Jeremiah 2.107 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:15

What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.

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Jer 11:15Against Heresies 4.17.3 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, medium confidenceca. 180–190
Jer 11:15Homilies on the Psalms 28.1 · Basil of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 360-378
Jer 11:15–16Commentary on Jeremiah 2.108 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:16

The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.

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Jer 11:16Demonstration of the Gospel 6.18.18 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324

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.”

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Jer 11:17Commentary on Jeremiah 2.109 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:18

And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

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Jer 11:18Homilies on Jeremiah 10, title · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:18Homilies on Jeremiah 10.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:18–19To Quirinus 2.15 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)
Jer 11:18Prophetic Extracts 3.33 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidencebefore 325 (probably ca. 310–320)
Jer 11:18Divine Institutes 4.18.27 · Lactantiusquotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Jer 11:18On the Christian Faith 4.12 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 378–380
Jer 11:18Exposition of Psalm 118 16.35.1 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 386-397
Jer 11:18–20Commentary on Jeremiah 2.110 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:19

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

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Jer 11:19Dialogue with Trypho 72.2 · Justin Martyrquotation, high confidenceca. 155–160
Jer 11:19On Pascha 63 · text not on this site · Melito of Sardisquotation, high confidenceca. 160-180
Jer 11:19On Pascha 67 · text not on this site · Melito of Sardisecho, low confidenceca. 160-180
Jer 11:19On Pascha 71 · text not on this site · Melito of Sardisecho, low confidenceca. 160-180
Jer 11:19On Pascha 72 · text not on this site · Melito of Sardisallusion, medium confidenceca. 160-180
Jer 11:19Against the Jews 10 · Tertullianquotation, high confidenceca. 197–207
Jer 11:19Against Marcion 3.19 · Tertullianquotation, high confidence207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Jer 11:19Against Marcion 4.40 · Tertullianquotation, high confidence207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Jer 11:19Commentary on John 1.135 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Jer 11:19Commentary on John 1.233 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 230–248
Jer 11:19Commentary on John 6.273 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Jer 11:19Homilies on Jeremiah 10.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:19Homilies on Jeremiah 10.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:19Homilies on Jeremiah 10.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:19Lines 261–284 · Commodianquotation, high confidence3rd century (disputed)
Jer 11:19To Quirinus 2.20 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)
Jer 11:19Prophetic Extracts 3.33 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidencebefore 325 (probably ca. 310–320)
Jer 11:19Divine Institutes 4.18.27 · Lactantiusquotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Jer 11:19Demonstration of the Gospel 1.10.17 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Jer 11:19Demonstration of the Gospel 1.10.21 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Jer 11:19On the Incarnation 35.3 · Athanasius of Alexandriaquotation, high confidenceca. 318–325
Jer 11:19Catechetical Lecture 13.19 · Cyril of Jerusalemquotation, high confidenceca. 350
Jer 11:19Long recension, Antiochians 2 · Anonymousquotation, high confidencelater 4th century (probable)
Jer 11:19Treatise on the Mysteries 1.35.1 · Hilary of Poitiersquotation, high confidenceca. 360–366
Jer 11:19Treatise on the Mysteries 1.35.2 · Hilary of Poitiersquotation, high confidenceca. 360–366
Jer 11:19On the Christian Faith 4.12 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 378–380
Jer 11:19Altercatio, chapter 2, speech 42 · Evagrius of Gaulquotation, high confidenceca. 400
Jer 11:19Altercatio, chapter 2, speech 45 · Evagrius of Gaulquotation, high confidenceca. 400
Jer 11:19On Jacob and the Happy Life 2.8 · Ambroseallusion, high confidenceca. 386-390
Jer 11:19Explanation of Twelve Psalms 35.3.3 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Jer 11:19Explanation of Twelve Psalms 35.3.4 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Jer 11:19Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.34.3 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Jer 11:19Explanation of Twelve Psalms 39.16.3 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Jer 11:19Commentary on the Apostles' Creed 22 · Rufinus of Aquileiaquotation, high confidenceca. 404
Jer 11:19Commentary on Jeremiah 4.8 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419
Jer 11:19Part 3, chapter 21 · Quodvultdeus of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 445-450

Jeremiah 11:20

O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

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Jer 11:20On Prayer 8.2 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 233–234
Jer 11:20Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:20Letter 1.3 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 370–419
Jer 11:20On the Making of Man 12 · Gregory of Nyssaallusion, low confidence379
Jer 11:20On the Lord's Prayer 1129 · Gregory of Nyssaallusion, high confidenceca. 380–394

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”

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Jer 11:21Homily on Luke 33 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 233–250
Jer 11:21Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:21–23Commentary on Jeremiah 2.111 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 11:22

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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Jer 11:22Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 11:23

There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

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Jer 11:23Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 11:23Homilies on Jeremiah 10.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240