Jeremiah:12 Parallel Bible - WLD WEY |
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| | The World English Online Bible (WLD) | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) |
| Jeremiah 12:1 | Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? | |
| Jeremiah 12:2 | You 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:3 | But you, Yahweh, 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:4 | How 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:5 | 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? | |
| Jeremiah 12:6 | For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. | |
| Jeremiah 12:7 | 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:8 | My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. | |
| Jeremiah 12:9 | Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour. | |
| Jeremiah 12:10 | Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. | |
| Jeremiah 12:11 | 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:12 | Destroyers are come on 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:13 | They 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 Yahweh. | |
| Jeremiah 12:14 | Thus says Yahweh 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:15 | It 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. | |
| Jeremiah 12:16 | It shall happen, 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 shall they be built up in the midst of my people. | |
| Jeremiah 12:17 | But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh. | |
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