Jeremiah / Question
God announces a curse on anyone who does not obey the words of the covenant given when he brought the people out of Egypt (Jeremiah 11:3–4). The passage ties the curse to refusing to listen and do what was commanded (Jeremiah 11:7–8).
Jeremiah 11:1–5 opens a new message where Yahweh tells Jeremiah to announce “the words of this covenant” to Judah and Jerusalem Jeremiah 11:1–5. The core point is simple: a curse falls on the person who refuses to listen to this covenant. Jeremiah ties the covenant back to the exodus from Egypt, when Israel was commanded to obey. This passage functions as the heading and opening charge for a larger covenant-focused section in Jeremiah 11. It introduces the key vocabulary of “covenant,” “words,” “hear,” and “curse,” and it frames the message as public proclamation to a specific audience: Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 11:1–5 opens a new message in which Yahweh instructs Jeremiah to publicly announce “the words of this covenant” to Judah and Jerusalem. The passage treats the covenant as something already given, rooted in Israel’s founding rescue from Egypt, and still morally binding in the present.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Jeremiah 11:3-4, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
3and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who doesn`t hear the words of this covenant,
4which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God;