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Yet, I want to talk to you about your justice. Why do wicked people succeed? Why do treacherous people have peace and quiet?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You plant them, and they take root. They grow, and they produce fruit. They speak well of you with their lips, but their hearts are far from you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You know me, O LORD. You see me and test my devotion to you. Drag them away like sheep to be slaughtered. Prepare them for the day of slaughter.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>How long will the land mourn? How long will the plants in every field remain dried up? The animals and the birds are dying, because people are wicked. They think that God doesn't know what they are doing. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"If you have raced against others on foot, and they have tired you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in open country, how can you live in the jungle along the Jordan River?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Even your relatives and members of your father's household betray you. They have also formed a mob to find you. Don't trust them when they say good things about you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"I have abandoned my nation. I have left my own people. I have handed the people I love over to their enemies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>My people have turned on me like a lion in the forest. They roar at me, so I hate them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My people are like a colorful bird of prey. Other birds of prey surround it. Go, gather all the animals in the field, and bring them to devour it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They've trampled my property. They've turned my pleasant property into a wasteland.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They've left it a wasteland. Devastated, it mourns in my presence. The whole land is destroyed, but no one takes this to heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Looters swarm all over the bare hills in the desert. The LORD's sword destroys them from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>My people planted wheat, but they harvested thorns. They worked until they became sick, but they gained nothing by it. They were disappointed by their harvests because of the burning anger of the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"This is what I, the LORD, say about all my evil neighbors who take the inheritance that I gave my people Israel: I am going to uproot those neighbors from their lands. I will also uproot the people of Judah from among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>After I've uprooted them, I will have compassion on them again. I will return them to their inheritance and to their lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Suppose they learn carefully the ways of my people. Suppose they take an oath in my name, 'As the LORD lives...' as they taught my people to take an oath in [the name of] Baal. Then they will build homes among my people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But suppose they don't listen. Then I will uproot that nation and destroy it," declares the LORD.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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