Jeremiah 11:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ The Lord once called you, “A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit,” but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The Lord [acknowledged you once to be worthy to be] called a green olive tree, fair and of good fruit; but with the roar of a great tempest He will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed. [Ps. 52:8; Jer. 21:14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The LORD named you, “A blossoming olive tree, fair and fruitful”; but with the blast of a powerful storm he will set it ablaze, until its branches are completely consumed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ The Lord has called your name: a beautiful, fruitful, splendid, and productive olive tree. At the voice of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and its greenery was burned up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive-tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it and the branches thereof are burnt.

Jeremiah 11:16 Cross References

Job 8:16

The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.

Psalm 52:8

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Psalm 80:16

It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Psalm 80:17

But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand, the one whom you made strong for yourself.

Psalm 83:2

Even now your enemies are in tumult; those who hate you have raised their heads.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you as a choice vine from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all that is around it.

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.

Hosea 14:6

His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.

Matthew 3:10

Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

John 15:6

Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

Deuteronomy 28:40

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

Revelation 11:4

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.