| Jer. 12:1 |
You are righteous, O Jehovah, / When I plead [my] cause with You; / Yet I will speak with You of [Your] judgments: / Why does the way of the wicked prosper? / [Why] are all those who deal treacherously at ease? |
| Jer. 12:2 |
You have planted them; they have also taken root; / They go on and bring forth fruit. / You are near, in their mouth, / But far from their inward parts. |
| Jer. 12:3 |
And You, O Jehovah, know me; You see me / And try my heart toward You. / Pull them out like sheep for the slaying, / And set them apart for the day of slaughter. |
| Jer. 12:4 |
How long will the land mourn / And the grass of every field dry up? / Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, / Beasts and birds are swept away, / Because they said, He will not see our end. |
| Jer. 12:5 |
If you have run with footmen and they have wearied you, / How then will you compete with horses? / [If ] [] you are secure in a land of peace, / How then will you do in the majesty of the Jordan? |
| Jer. 12:6 |
For even your brothers and the house of your father, / Even they have dealt treacherously with you; / Even they have cried aloud after you. / Do not believe them, although they speak good things to you. |
| Jer. 12:7 |
I have forsaken My house; / I have abandoned My inheritance; / I have given the beloved of My soul / Into the hand of her enemies. |
| Jer. 12:8 |
My inheritance has become to Me / Like a lion in the forest; / She lifted up her voice against Me, / Therefore I hated her. |
| Jer. 12:9 |
Is My inheritance a speckled bird of prey to Me? / Are the birds of prey against her all around? / Go, gather all the beasts of the field; / Bring them to devour. |
| Jer. 12:10 |
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; / They have trampled down My portion; / They have made My pleasant portion / A desolate wilderness. |
| Jer. 12:11 |
They have made it a desolation; / Desolate, it mourns to Me; / The whole land has been desolated / Because no one lays it to heart. |
| Jer. 12:12 |
Upon all the bare heights in the wilderness / Destroyers have come, For the sword of Jehovah devours / From one end of the land to the other end of the land; / No flesh has peace. |
| Jer. 12:13 |
They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; / They have worn themselves out, but they profit nothing; / Therefore be ashamed of your produce / Because of the burning anger of Jehovah. |
| Jer. 12:14 |
Thus says Jehovah concerning all My evil neighbors, who have touched the inheritance which I caused My people Israel to inherit, I am about to pluck them up out of their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah out from their midst. |
| Jer. 12:15 |
And after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them and bring them again, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land. |
| Jer. 12:16 |
And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, [saying,] As Jehovah lives, even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people. |
| Jer. 12:17 |
But if they do not listen, I will pluck up that nation, plucking [it] up and destroying [it,] declares Jehovah. |