1You are righteous, Lord, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

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Malachi 3:15, Malachi 3:15, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 37:1, Psalms 92:7

2You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

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Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 29:13, Titus 1:16, Titus 1:16, Matthew 15:8

3But you, Lord, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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2 Kings 20:3, Jeremiah 17:18, 2 Kings 20:3, Jeremiah 17:18, Psalms 139:1

4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, "He shall not see our latter end."

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Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:10, Psalms 107:34, Jeremiah 4:25, Psalms 107:34

5"If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

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1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:12, Proverbs 24:10, Proverbs 24:10, Hebrews 12:3

6For 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, though they speak beautiful words to you.

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Proverbs 26:25, Proverbs 26:25, Jeremiah 9:4, Jeremiah 9:4, Genesis 37:4

7I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

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Isaiah 2:6, Isaiah 2:6, Jeremiah 11:15, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 78:60

8My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

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Amos 6:8, Amos 6:8, Hosea 9:15, Hosea 9:15, Jeremiah 2:15

9Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

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Isaiah 56:9, Isaiah 56:9, Jeremiah 7:33, Jeremiah 7:33, Revelation 19:17

10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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Isaiah 5:1, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 23:1, Isaiah 5:1

11They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

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Jeremiah 23:10, Isaiah 42:25, Jeremiah 23:10, Isaiah 42:25, Jeremiah 14:2

12Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the Lord devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

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Amos 9:4, Jeremiah 47:6, Amos 9:4, Jeremiah 47:6, Ezekiel 14:17

13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 28:38, Micah 6:15, Haggai 1:6, Deuteronomy 28:38, Micah 6:15

14Thus says the Lord against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: 'behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

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Jeremiah 3:18, Zechariah 2:8, Jeremiah 3:18, Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 10:6

15It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

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Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 48:47, Jeremiah 48:47, Jeremiah 49:39

16It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, "As the Lord lives;" even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.

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Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 4:2, Joshua 23:7, Zephaniah 1:5, Deuteronomy 10:20

17But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,'" says the Lord.

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Isaiah 60:12, Isaiah 60:12, Psalms 2:8, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 2:8