Jeremiah 12 : 1 (HCSB)
You will be righteous, LORD, even if I bring a case against You. Yet, I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? *Why do the treacherous live at ease?
Jeremiah 12 : 2 (HCSB)
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their conscience.
Jeremiah 12 : 3 (HCSB)
As for You, You know me, LORD; You see me. You test whether my heart is with You. Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter, and set them apart for the day of killing.
Jeremiah 12 : 4 (HCSB)
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for *the people have said, "He cannot see what our end will be."
Jeremiah 12 : 5 (HCSB)
If you have raced with runners and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12 : 6 (HCSB)
Even your brothers-- your own father's household-- even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them, though they speak well of you.
Jeremiah 12 : 7 (HCSB)
I have abandoned My house; I have deserted My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah 12 : 8 (HCSB)
My inheritance has acted toward Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me. Therefore, I hate her.
Jeremiah 12 : 9 (HCSB)
Is My inheritance like a hyena to Me? Are birds of prey circling her? Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour *her .
Jeremiah 12 : 10 (HCSB)
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of land. They have turned My desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.
Jeremiah 12 : 11 (HCSB)
They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before Me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 12 : 12 (HCSB)
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the LORD has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.
Jeremiah 12 : 13 (HCSB)
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the LORD's burning anger.
Jeremiah 12 : 14 (HCSB)
This is what the LORD says: "Concerning 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.
Jeremiah 12 : 15 (HCSB)
After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
Jeremiah 12 : 16 (HCSB)
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-- they will be built up among My people.
Jeremiah 12 : 17 (HCSB)
However, if they will not obey, then I will uproot and destroy that nation." *This is the LORD's declaration.
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