JER-12:1  Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee:

yet let me

talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the

wicked

prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very

treacherously?

JER-12:2  Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root:

they grow, yea,

they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far

from their

reins.

JER-12:3  But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and

tried mine

heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,

and prepare

them for the day of slaughter.

JER-12:4  How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every

field wither,

for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are

consumed, and

the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

JER-12:5  If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have

wearied thee, then

how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of

peace, [wherein]

thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in

the swelling of

Jordan?

JER-12:6  For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father,

even they have

dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude

after thee:

believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

JER-12:7  I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage;

I have given

the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

JER-12:8  Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it

crieth out

against me: therefore have I hated it.

JER-12:9  Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the

birds round

about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the

field, come

to devour.

JER-12:10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have

trodden my

portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a

desolate wilderness.

JER-12:11  They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it

mourneth unto

me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it]

to heart.

JER-12:12  The spoilers are come upon all high places through

the wilderness:

for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the

land even to

the [other] end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

JER-12:13  They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they

have put

themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be

ashamed of your

revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

JER-12:14  Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours,

that touch

the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit;

Behold, I

will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of

Judah from among

them.

JER-12:15  And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked

them out I

will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them

again, every man

to his heritage, and every man to his land.

JER-12:16  And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently

learn the ways

of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they

taught my people

to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my

people.

JER-12:17  But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up

and destroy that

nation, saith the LORD.

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