12You are righteous, Lord, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease -H6662H3068H7378H1696H4941H1870H7563H6743H7951H899H8982You plant them and they take root, they grow and bear fruit. "You are near to us," they say with their mouths, but the truth is that you're far from their hearts.H5193H8327H3212H6213H6529H7138H6310H7350H36293You know me, Lord. You see me and test my thoughts toward you. Pull the wicked out like sheep for slaughter; set them apart for the day of butchering.H3068H3045H7200H974H3820H5423H6629H2878H6942H3117H20284How long will the land mourn and the vegetation of every field dry up?Because of the wickedness of those who live in it, animals and birds are swept away. For they say, "He does not see our future."H776H56H6212H7704H3001H7451H3427H929H5595H5775H559H7200H319
God’s Reply to Jeremiah
5Indeed, if you run with others on foot, and they tire you out, how can you compete with horses?You are secure in a land at peace, but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan -H7323H7273H3811H8474H5483H776H7965H982H6213H1347H33836Indeed, even your brothers and your father's family conspire against you. Even they cry out after you loudly. Don't believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.H251H1004H1H898H7121H4392H310H539H1696H28967I'll forsake my house, I'll abandon my inheritance. I'll give the beloved of my heart into the hand of her enemies.H5800H1004H5203H5159H5414H3033H5315H3709H3418My inheritance has become like a lion in the forest to me. She roars at me; therefore, I hate her.H5159H738H3293H5414H6963H81309Is my inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to me?Are the other birds of prey all around her coming against her?Go, gather all the wild animals and bring them to devour it.H5159H6641H5861H5861H5439H3212H622H2416H7704H857H40210Many shepherds will destroy my vineyard. They'll trample down my portion. They'll turn my pleasant portion into a desolate desert.H7227H7462H7843H3754H947H2513H947H5414H2532H2513H8077H405711They'll make it into a desolate place, and, desolate, it will cry out in mourning to me. The whole land will be desolate because no one takes it to heart.H7760H8076H8077H56H776H8074H376H7760H382012On all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will come. Indeed, a sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other. There will be no peace for any person.H7703H935H8205H4057H2719H3068H398H7097H776H7097H776H1320H796513They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord.H2232H2406H7114H6975H2470H3276H954H8393H2740H639H3068
God’s Word about Judah’s Neighbors
14This is what the Lord says about all the wicked neighbors who strike out against the land I've given to my people Israel as their inheritance. "I'm about to uproot them from their land, and I'll uproot the house of Judah from among them.H559H3068H7451H7934H5060H5159H5971H3478H5157H5428H127H5428H1004H3063H843215After I've uprooted them I'll again have compassion on them. I'll return each one of them to his inheritance, and each one to his own land.H310H5428H7725H7355H7725H376H5159H376H77616If they have learned the ways of my people well, to swear by my name: 'As surely as the Lord lives,' just as they once taught my people to swear by Baal, then they'll be built up among my people.H3925H3925H1870H5971H7650H8034H3068H2416H3925H5971H7650H1168H1129H8432H597117But if they don't listen, then I'll completely uproot that nation and destroy it," declares the Lord.1216H8085H5428H5428H6H1471H5002H3068