Jeremiah 12 NKJV

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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/jeremiah/12.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Jeremiah’s Question</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Jer-12-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Righteous <i>are</i> You, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, when I plead with You;</span></span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-1">Yet let me talk with You about <i>Your</i> judgments.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-1">Why does the way of the wicked prosper?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-1"><i>Why</i> are those happy who deal so treacherously?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You have planted them, yes, they have taken root;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-2">They grow, yes, they bear fruit.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-2">You <i>are</i> near in their mouth</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-2">But far from their <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>mind.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But You, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, know me;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-3">You have seen me,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-3">And You have tested my heart toward You.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-3">Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-3">And prepare them for the day of slaughter.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>How long will the land mourn,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-4">And the herbs of every field wither?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-4">The beasts and birds are consumed,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-4">For the wickedness of those who dwell there,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-4">Because they said, “He will not see our final end.”</span></p></div> <h3> The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> Answers Jeremiah</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Jer-12-5"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-5">Then how can you contend with horses?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-5">And <i>if</i> in the land of peace,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-5"><i>In which</i> you trusted, <i>they wearied you,</i></span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-5">Then how will you do in the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>floodplain of the Jordan?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For even your brothers, the house of your father,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-6">Even they have dealt treacherously with you;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-6">Yes, they have called <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>a multitude after you.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-6">Do not believe them,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-6">Even though they speak <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>smooth words to you.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-7">I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-8">It cries out against Me;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-8">Therefore I have hated it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>heritage <i>is</i> to Me <i>like</i> a speckled vulture;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-9">The vultures all around <i>are</i> against her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-9">Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-9">Bring them to devour!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Many rulers<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span> have destroyed My vineyard,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-10">They have trodden My portion underfoot;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-10">They have made My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They have made it desolate;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-11">Desolate, it mourns to Me;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-11">The whole land is made desolate,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-11">Because no one takes <i>it</i> to heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The plunderers have come</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-12">On all the desolate heights in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-12">For the sword of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> shall devour</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-12">From <i>one</i> end of the land to the <i>other</i> end of the land;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-12">No flesh shall have peace.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They have sown wheat but reaped thorns;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-13">They have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>put themselves to pain <i>but</i> do not profit.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-13">But be ashamed of your harvest</span><br /><span class="text Jer-12-13">Because of the fierce anger of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.”</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>: “Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-19252a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:2">Jeremiah 12:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Most secret parts, lit. <i>kidneys</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19255b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:5">Jeremiah 12:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>thicket</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19256c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:6">Jeremiah 12:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>abundantly</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19256d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:6">Jeremiah 12:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>good</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19259e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:9">Jeremiah 12:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>inheritance</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19260f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:10">Jeremiah 12:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>shepherds</i> or <i>pastors</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19260g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:10">Jeremiah 12:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>desired portion</i> of land</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-19263h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Jeremiah 12:13">Jeremiah 12:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>strained</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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