Jeremiah 12

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

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grow Heb. go on

Jeremiah 12:3

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

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toward or , with

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, "He cannot see what our end will be."

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Jeremiah 12:5

“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

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Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

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have called etc. or , cried after thee fully

fair words Heb. good things

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.

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dearly beloved Heb. love

Jeremiah 12:8

My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

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Jeremiah 12:9

Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

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Mine Or rather , as the learned Bochart renders , "Is then my heritage . people to me as a fierce hyena? Is there a wild beast all around upon her?" i.e. , the land of Canaan. The hyena is a kind of wolf , a little bigger than a mastiff; colour grey , streaked with black . it is of a solitary and savage disposition.

speckled bird or , a bird having talons

come or , cause them to come

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

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Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

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Jeremiah 12:12

Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

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Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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they or , ye

Jeremiah 12:14

This is what the LORD says: “As for 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.

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am 3401 , bc 603

Jeremiah 12:15

But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

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Jeremiah 12:16

And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

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Jeremiah 12:17

But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

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