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Jeremiah 12 📜 📕 ↷
Prosperity of the Wicked
1 THOU indeed o Lord art just, if I dispute with thee, but yet I will speak just things to thee: Why doth the way of the impious prosper: why is it well with all that transgress, and do wickedly?📜💬📚
2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art nigh to their mouth, and far from their reins.📜💬📚
3 And thou Lord hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as a flock to the victim, and sanctify them in the day of slaughter.📜💬📚
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field be withered for malice of the inhabitants therein? Beast is consumed, and fowl: because they have said: He shall not see our later ends.📜💬📚
God's Answer to Jeremiah
5 If running with foot-men thou hast laboured: how canst thou contend with horses? And whereas in a land of peace thou hast been secure, what wilt thou do in the pride of Jordan?📜💬📚
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, they also have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they shall speak good things unto thee.📜💬📚
7 I have forsaken my house, I have left mine inheritance: I have given my beloved soul into the hand of her enemies.📜💬📚
8 Mine inheritance is become unto me as a lion in the wood: it hath uttered a voice against me, therefore have I hated it.📜💬📚
9 Why, is mine inheritance unto me as a bird of diverse colours? Is it as a bird dyed throughout? Come, assemble yourselves all ye beasts of the land, make haste to devour.📜💬📚
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden down my portion: they have made my portion that was worthy to be desired, into a desert of desolation.📜💬📚
11 They have laid it into dissipation, and it hath mourned upon me. With desolation is all the land made desolate: because there is none that considereth in the heart.📜💬📚
12 Upon all the ways of the desert the wasters are come, because the sword of our Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace to all flesh.📜💬📚
13 They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have taken an inheritance, & it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, for the wrath of the fury of our Lord.📜💬📚
A Message for Israel's Neighbors
14 Thus saith the Lord against all my most wicked neighbours: which touch the inheritance that I have distributed to my people of Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and the house of Juda I will pluck out of the midst of them.📜💬📚
15 And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have mercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man into his land.📜💬📚
16 And it shall be: if being taught they will learn the ways of my people, that they swear in my name: Our Lord liveth, as they have taught my people to swear by Baal: they shall be built in the midst of my people.📜💬📚
17 But if they will not hear, I will pluck out that nation with plucking up and with destruction, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
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