Jeremiah 12 (NET)

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Jeremiah 12:1¹Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mal 3:15 Ps 92:7 Ps 37:1 Ps 37:35 Ps 51:4 Ps 73:3-28 Dan 9:7 Hab 1:4 Ps 94:3-4 Zeph 3:5

Jeremiah 12:2²You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 29:13 Titus 1:16 Matt 15:8 Jer 11:17 Ezek 17:5-10 Ezek 33:31 Jer 45:4 Ezek 19:10-13 Jer 3:10 Mark 7:6

Jeremiah 12:3³But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:3 Jer 17:18 Ps 139:1-4 Ps 17:3 Jas 5:5 Jer 50:27 Ps 139:23 Ps 26:1 Ps 44:21-22 1 Chr 29:17

Jeremiah 12:4⁴How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast, “God will not see what happens to us.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:10 Ps 107:34 Hos 4:3 Jer 4:25 Jer 23:10 Jer 5:31 Jer 7:20 Rom 8:22 Hab 3:17 Joel 1:10-17

Jeremiah 12:5⁵The Lord answered, “If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only in safe and open country, how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:12 Prov 24:10 Heb 12:3-4 Jer 49:19 Jer 50:44 Ps 42:7 Ps 69:1-2 Prov 3:11 Josh 3:15 Jer 26:8

Jeremiah 12:6⁶As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you as well. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 26:25 Jer 9:4 Ps 12:2 Gen 37:4-11 Mic 7:5-6 Matt 10:21 Jer 11:19 Jer 11:21 Ps 69:8 Acts 18:12

Jeremiah 12:7⁷“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 2:6 Ps 78:59-60 Jer 11:15 Hos 9:15 Lam 2:1-22 Ezek 24:21 Ezek 7:20-21 Jer 51:5 Jer 7:14 Jer 7:29

Jeremiah 12:8⁸The people I call my own have turned on me like a lion in the forest. They have roared defiantly at me, so I will treat them as though I hate them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 6:8 Hos 9:15 Zech 11:8 Jer 2:15 Jer 51:38

Jeremiah 12:9⁹The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. But other birds of prey are all around them. Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 56:9 Jer 7:33 2 Kgs 24:2 Ezek 23:22-25 Rev 19:17-18 Ezek 16:36-37 Ezek 39:17-20 Jer 15:3 Jer 2:15 Rev 17:16

Jeremiah 12:10¹⁰Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wilderness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 5:1-7 Isa 63:18 Jer 23:1 Jer 3:19 Jer 6:3 Luke 20:9-16 Ps 80:8-16 Isa 43:28 Jer 25:9 Jer 39:3

Jeremiah 12:11¹¹They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste, but no one living in it will pay any heed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 42:25 Jer 23:10 Jer 14:2 Eccl 7:2 Isa 57:1 Jer 10:22 Jer 10:25 Jer 12:4-8 Jer 19:8 Jer 6:8

Jeremiah 12:12¹²A destructive army will come marching over the hilltops in the wilderness. For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon against everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 9:4 Jer 47:6 Ezek 14:17 Isa 34:6 Ezek 5:2 Isa 57:21 Isa 66:15-16 Jer 15:2 Jer 3:2 Jer 34:17

Jeremiah 12:13¹³My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:38 Hag 1:6 Mic 6:15 Isa 55:2 Lev 26:16 Hab 2:13 Jer 25:37-38 Jer 4:26 Hag 2:16-17 Isa 30:1-6

Jeremiah 12:14¹⁴“I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say: ‘I will uproot the people of those nations from their land and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 3:18 Zech 2:8 Jer 49:7 Zech 10:6-12 Zeph 2:8-10 Deut 30:3 Ezek 25:1-17 Isa 11:11-16 Jer 2:3 Ps 106:47

Jeremiah 12:15¹⁵But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands and to their own country.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 49:6 Jer 48:47 Jer 49:39 Amos 9:14 Deut 30:3 Deut 3:20 Isa 23:17-18 Num 32:18

Jeremiah 12:16¹⁶But they must make sure to learn to follow the religious practices of my people. Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives, I swear.” If they do these things, then they will be included among the people I call my own.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:2 Josh 23:7 Zeph 1:5 Deut 10:20-21 Jer 3:17 Zech 2:11 Eph 2:19-22 Isa 45:23 Isa 49:6 Isa 56:5-6