Jeremiah 12:1-5 (New International Version)
Jeremiah's Complaint
1 You are always righteous,1 O Lord, when I bring a case2 before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice:3 Why does the way of the wicked prosper?4 Why do all the faithless live at ease? 2 You have planted5 them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit.6 You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.7 3 Yet you know me, O Lord; you see me and test8 my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep9 to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter!10 4 How long will the land lie parcheda11 and the grass in every field be withered?12 Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished.13 Moreover, the people are saying, "He will not see what happens to us."God's Answer
5 "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country,b how will you manage in the thickets14 byc the Jordan?Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version)
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a.
Jeremiah 12:4 - Or "land mourn"
b.
Jeremiah 12:5 - Or "If you put your trust in a land of safety"
c.
Jeremiah 12:5 - Or "the flooding of"