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Jeremiah 12:1
Jeremiah.
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Jeremiah 12:2
You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all ...
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Jeremiah 12:3
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
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Jeremiah 12:4
But you, LORD, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughte...
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Jeremiah 12:5
How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds a...
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Jeremiah 12:6
“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how ...
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Jeremiah 12:7
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe...
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Jeremiah 12:8
“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
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Jeremiah 12:9
My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.
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Jeremiah 12:10
Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them t...
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Jeremiah 12:11
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
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Jeremiah 12:12
They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
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Jeremiah 12:13
Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end o...
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Jeremiah 12:14
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of the L...
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Jeremiah 12:15
The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them...
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Jeremiah 12:16
It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and e...
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Jeremiah 12:17
It will happen, 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 ...
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Jeremiah 12:18
But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the LORD.