12Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?H6662H3068H7378H1696H4941H1870H7563H6743H7951H899H8982You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.H5193H8327H3212H6213H6529H7138H6310H7350H36293But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.H3068H3045H7200H974H3820H5423H6629H2878H6942H3117H20284How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end."H776H56H6212H7704H3001H7451H3427H929H5595H5775H559H7200H3195"If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?H7323H7273H3811H8474H5483H776H7965H982H6213H1347H33836For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you."H251H1004H1H898H7121H4392H310H539H1696H28967"I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.H5800H1004H5203H5159H5414H3033H5315H3709H3418My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.H5159H738H3293H5414H6963H81309Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.H5159H6641H5861H5861H5439H3212H622H2416H7704H857H40210Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.H7227H7462H7843H3754H947H2513H947H5414H2532H2513H8077H405711They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.H7760H8076H8077H56H776H8074H376H7760H382012Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.H7703H935H8205H4057H2719H3068H398H7097H776H7097H776H1320H796513They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD."H2232H2406H7114H6975H2470H3276H954H8393H2740H639H306814Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.H559H3068H7451H7934H5060H5159H5971H3478H5157H5428H127H5428H1004H3063H843215And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.H310H5428H7725H7355H7725H376H5159H376H77616And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.H3925H3925H1870H5971H7650H8034H3068H2416H3925H5971H7650H1168H1129H8432H597117But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."H8085H5428H5428H6H1471H5002H3068
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