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Jeremiah 12
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Jeremiah’s Complaint

12You will be righteous, LORD, even if I bring a case against You. Yet, I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? [Why] do the treacherous live at ease?H6662H3068H7378H1696H4941H1870H7563H6743H7951H899H898 2You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their conscience.H5193H8327H3212H6213H6529H7138H6310H7350H3629 3As for You, You know me, LORD; You see me. You test whether my heart is with You. Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter, and set them apart for the day of killing.H3068H3045H7200H974H3820H5423H6629H2878H6942H3117H2028 4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for [the people] have said, "He cannot see what our end will be."H776H56H6212H7704H3001H7451H3427H929H5595H5775H559H7200H319

The Lord’s Response

5If you have raced with runners and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?H7323H7273H3811H8474H5483H776H7965H982H6213H1347H3383 6Even your brothers— your own father's household— even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them, though they speak well of you.H251H1004H1H898H7121H4392H310H539H1696H2896 7I have abandoned My house; I have deserted My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hand of her enemies.H5800H1004H5203H5159H5414H3033H5315H3709H341 8My inheritance has acted toward Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me. Therefore, I hate her.H5159H738H3293H5414H6963H8130 9Is My inheritance like a hyena to Me? Are birds of prey circling her? Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour [her].H5159H6641H5861H5861H5439H3212H622H2416H7704H857H402 10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of land. They have turned My desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.H7227H7462H7843H3754H947H2513H947H5414H2532H2513H8077H4057 11They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before Me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.H7760H8076H8077H56H776H8074H376H7760H3820 12Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the LORD has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.H7703H935H8205H4057H2719H3068H398H7097H776H7097H776H1320H7965 13They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the LORD's burning anger.H2232H2406H7114H6975H2470H3276H954H8393H2740H639H3068 14This is what the LORD says: "Concerning all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people, Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.H559H3068H7451H7934H5060H5159H5971H3478H5157H5428H127H5428H1004H3063H8432 15After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.H310H5428H7725H7355H7725H376H5159H376H776 16If they will diligently learn the ways of My people— to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' just as they taught My people to swear by Baal— they will be built up among My people.H3925H3925H1870H5971H7650H8034H3068H2416H3925H5971H7650H1168H1129H8432H5971 17However, if they will not obey, then I will uproot and destroy that nation." [This is] the LORD's declaration.H8085H5428H5428H6H1471H5002H3068


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