Jeremiah:12:5-17

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* 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 ? * For even your brothers , and the house of your father , even they have betrayed you ; even they have cried aloud after you : don 't believe them , though they speak fair words to you . * I 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 . * My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest : she has uttered her voice against me ; therefore I have hated her . * Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey ? Are the birds of prey against her round about ? Go (note :){+}(:note ), assemble {+} all the beasts of the field , bring {+} them to devour . * Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard , they have trodden my portion under foot , they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness . * They have made it a desolation ; it mourns to me , being desolate ; the whole land is made desolate , because no man lays it to heart . * Destroyers have come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness ; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land : no flesh has peace . * They have sown wheat , and have reaped thorns ; they have tired themselves out , and profit nothing . And be (note :){+}(:note ) ashamed of your {+} fruits , because of the fierce anger of Yahweh . * Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors , that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit : look , I will pluck them up from off their land , and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them . * And it will come to pass , 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 . * And it will come to pass , if they will diligently learn the ways of my people , to swear by my name , As Yahweh lives ; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal ; then they will be built up in the midst of my people . * But if they will not hear , then I will pluck up that nation , plucking up and destroying it , says Yahweh .

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