Jeremiah 11:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ “יהוה has named you, ‘Green Olive Tree, Beautiful, of Goodly Fruit.’ With the noise of a great sound He has set it on fire, and its branches shall be broken.

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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

He is moist before the sun, and his branches spread out in his garden.

Psalm 52:8

But I am like a green olive tree In the House of Elohim, I have trusted in the loving-commitment of Elohim Forever and ever.

Psalm 80:16

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your face.

Psalm 80:17

Let Your hand be upon the One at Your right hand, Upon the Son of Aḏam whom You made strong for Yourself,

Psalm 83:2

For look, Your enemies make an uproar, And those hating You have lifted up their head.

Isaiah 27:11

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off, women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore He who made them has no compassion on them, and He who formed them shows them no favour.

Jeremiah 2:21

“Yet I had planted you a choice vine, all of it a true seed. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of a strange vine?

Jeremiah 21:14

“And I shall punish you according to the fruit of your deeds,” declares יהוה. “And I shall kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall consume all that is around her.” ’ ”

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore, thus said the Master יהוה, “See, My displeasure and My wrath is poured out on this place, on man and on beast, and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it shall burn and not be quenched.”

Hosea 14:6

“His branches shall spread, and his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leḇanon.

Matthew 3:10

“And the axe is already laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

John 15:6

“If anyone does not stay in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Deuteronomy 28:40

“You have olive trees in all your border, but do not anoint with oil, for your olives drop off.

Revelation 11:4

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that are standing before the Elohim of the earth.