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Jeremiah

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Chapter 12

¹Righteous 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 faithless people flourish? ²You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit; you are always on their lips but far from their hearts. ³But 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. ⁴How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its inhabitants, the beasts and the birds have perished, because people said, “He will not see our latter end.” ⁵“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 confident, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? ⁶For 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.” ⁷“I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies. ⁸My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her. ⁹Is my heritage to me like a speckled bird of prey? Are birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour her. ¹⁰Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. ¹¹They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, a desolation; the whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart. ¹²Upon all the bare heights in the wilderness destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace. ¹³They have sown wheat and reaped thorns; they have toiled and have gained nothing. Be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.” ¹⁴Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them. ¹⁵And after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. ¹⁶And if 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, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people. ¹⁷But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it, declares the LORD.”