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Jeremiah Chapter 12

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 12

1Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?
Hosea 11:12, Hosea 11:12, Ezekiel 17:10, Hosea 8:7, Hosea 5:13
2You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.
Micah 6:2, Micah 6:2, Hosea 4:1, Ezekiel 23:11, Ezekiel 23:21
3And you, O Lord, have known me well. You have seen me, and you have tested my heart with you. Gather them together like a flock for the sacrifice and sanctify them for the day of slaughter.
Genesis 25:26, Genesis 25:26, James 5:16, James 5:18, Genesis 32:24
4How long shall the earth mourn? And how long shall the plants of every field whither because of the wickedness of the inhabitants within them? It has consumed the wild animals and the birds. For they said: “He will not see our very end.”
Malachi 3:1, Genesis 35:15, Malachi 3:1, Genesis 35:15, Genesis 32:29
5“If you have struggled to run on foot, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you have been secure in a land of peace, what will you do about the arrogance of the Jordan?
Exodus 3:15, Exodus 3:15, Isaiah 42:8, Psalms 135:13, Isaiah 42:8
6For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: ‘You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.’ ”
Micah 6:8, Micah 6:8, Hosea 14:1, Micah 7:7, Hosea 14:1
7“I have abandoned my house. I have disowned my inheritance. I have given my beloved soul into the hand of its enemies.
Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Proverbs 11:1, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11
8My inheritance has become for me like a lion in the forest. It has uttered a voice against me, therefore, I have hated it.
Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:17, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 49:6
9Is my inheritance to me like a discolored bird? Is it like a bird that has entirely changed color? Approach and assemble, all beasts of the earth! Hurry, so that you may devour!
Leviticus 23:40, Leviticus 23:43, Leviticus 23:40, Leviticus 23:43, Nehemiah 8:15
10Many pastors have demolished my vineyard. They have trampled my portion. They have made my desirable portion into a desert of solitude.
2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 17:13, Ezekiel 20:49, Ezekiel 20:49, Isaiah 20:2
11They have squandered it, and it has grieved concerning me. The entire earth has become utterly desolate, because there is no one who understands with the heart.”
Hosea 6:8, Hosea 4:15, Hosea 8:11, Hosea 6:8, Hosea 4:15
12The devastators have arrived, over all the ways of the wilderness. For the sword of the Lord will devour, from one end of the earth even to its furthest limits. There is no peace for all that is flesh.
Genesis 31:41, Genesis 31:41, Genesis 29:18, Genesis 29:28, Genesis 27:43
13They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.
Exodus 12:50, Exodus 12:51, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23, Exodus 12:50
14Thus says the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, who touch the inheritance that I have distributed to my people Israel: “Behold, I will root them out of their own land, and I will root the house of Judah out of their midst.
Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:13, Daniel 11:18, Daniel 11:18, 2 Kings 17:7
15And when I have rooted them out, I will turn back and take pity on them. And I will lead them back, one man to his inheritance, and another man to his land.
16And this shall be: if they are taught and they learn the ways of my people, so that they swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ just as they had taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.
17But if they will not listen, I will uproot that nation unto utter destruction and perdition, says the Lord.”

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