ULT JER Chapter 12

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12 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I plead to you.

Yet I would speak claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, why are they at ease all of the ones being treacherous of treachery?

2 You have planted them, they have also taken root. They grow, they have also produced fruit.

Near you are in their mouth, but far away from their kidneys. 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me and you test my heart toward you.

Drag them away like sheep for slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter!

4 Until when will the land dry up and the herbage of every field wither from the wickedness of those who dwell in it?

The beasts and the birds dwindle away because they said, “He will not see our end.”

5 If you have run with footmen and they have wearied you, how will you compete with the horses?

And if you are trusting in a land of peace, then how will you do in the height of the Jordan?

6 For even your brothers and your father’s house, even they have betrayed you, even they have called after you fully.

Do not trust in them, though they speak good things to you.

7 I have abandoned my house, I have left my inheritance.

I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest,

she uttered against me with her voice, therefore I hate her.

9 Is my inheritance a speckled bird of prey to me, are they a bird of prey all around against her?

Go, assemble all of the beast of the field, bring them for food.

10 Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have tread down my portion;

they have made my pleasant portion a wilderness of desolation.

11 He has made it a desolation, she mourns to me;

desolate she is made desolate, all the land, because no man lays it to heart.

12 Upon all the bare heights in the wilderness have come the destroyers,

for the sword of Yahweh is consuming from one end of the land and to the other end of the land;

there is not peace for any flesh.

13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves, but they did not profit.

Be ashamed of your harvests, because of the burning of the nose of Yahweh.”

14 Thus says Yahweh concerning all my evil neighbors who strike the inheritance that I that I have caused my people Israel to inherit, “Behold, I am plucking them up from upon their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from their midst. 15 And it will happen after I pluck them up, I will turn and have compassion on them and bring them back, a man to his inheritance and a man to his land. 16 And it will happen, if learning, they will learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name ‘As Yahweh lives’ just as they have taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built in the midst of my people. 17 But if they do not listen, then I will pluck up that nation, to pluck up and destroy”—the declaration of Yahweh.