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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You are always righteous, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">when I bring a case before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Yet I would speak with you about your justice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why does the way of the wicked prosper?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why do all the faithless live at ease?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have planted them, and they have taken root;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">they grow and bear fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">You are always on their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">but far from their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you know me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">you see me and test my thoughts about you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Set them apart for the day of slaughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long will the land lie parched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">and the grass in every field be withered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Because those who live in it are wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">the animals and birds have perished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Moreover, the people are saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;He will not see what happens to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you have raced with men on foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">and they have worn you out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how can you compete with horses?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">If you stumble</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you feel secure only</span></span></span><span class="content"> in safe country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how will you manage in the thickets by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the flooding of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jordan?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your relatives, members of your own family&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">even they have betrayed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">they have raised a loud cry against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">Do not trust them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">though they speak well of you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will forsake my house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">abandon my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">I will give the one I love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">into the hands of her enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My inheritance has become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">like a lion in the forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">She roars at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">therefore I hate her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has not my inheritance become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">like a speckled bird of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">that other birds of prey surround and attack?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">Go and gather all the wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">bring them to devour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">and trample down my field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">they will turn my pleasant field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">into a desolate wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It will be made a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">parched and desolate before me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">the whole land will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">because there is no one who cares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Over all the barren heights in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">destroyers will swarm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">for the sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">from one end of the land to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">no one will be safe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will sow wheat but reap thorns;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">They will bear the shame of their harvest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives&#8217;&#8212;even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal&#8212;then they will be established among my people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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