These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 12
Tanakh 17 verses
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Right wouldest Thou be, O , Were I to contend with Thee, Yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?
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Malachi 3:15 Job 12:6 Psalm 37:1 Psalm 51:4 Psalm 92:7 Psalm 37:35 Psalm 94:3-4 Ezra 9:15 Job 13:3 Job 21:7-15 Zephaniah 3:5 Jeremiah 11:20 Jeremiah 5:11 Habakkuk 1:4 Jeremiah 5:27-28 Habakkuk 1:13-17 Daniel 9:7 Deuteronomy 32:4 Hosea 6:7 Romans 3:5-6 Psalm 119:137 Isaiah 48:8 Jeremiah 12:6 Isaiah 41:21 Psalm 73:3-28 Genesis 18:25 Psalm 119:75 Proverbs 1:32 Psalm 145:17 - 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; They grow, yea, they bring forth fruit; Thou art near in their mouth, And far from their reins.
- 3 But Thou, O , knowest me, Thou seest me, and triest my toward Thee; Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, And prepare them for the day of slaughter.
- 4 How long shall the land mourn, And the herbs of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; Because they said: ‘He seeth not our end.’
- 5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, Then how canst thou contend with horses? And though in a land of thou art secure, Yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the ?
- 6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, Even they have dealt treacherously with thee, Even they have cried aloud after thee; Believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.’
- 7 I have forsaken My house, I have cast off My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My Into the hand of her enemies.
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My heritage is become unto Me As a lion in the forest; She hath uttered her voice against Me; Therefore have I hated her.
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- 9 Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour.
- 10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, They have trodden My portion under foot, They have made My pleasant portion A desolate wilderness.
- 11 They have made it a desolation, It mourneth unto Me, being desolate; The whole land is made desolate, Because no man layeth it to .
- 12 Upon all the high hills in the wilderness spoilers are come; For the sword of devoureth From the one end of the land even to the other end of the land, No hath .
- 13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain, they profit not; Be ye then ashamed of your increase, Because of the fierce anger of .
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Thus saith : As for all Mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused My people to inherit, behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of from among them.
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Zechariah 2:8 Isaiah 11:11-16 Deuteronomy 30:3 Zephaniah 2:8-10 Psalm 106:47 Jeremiah 3:18 Jeremiah 2:3 Jeremiah 49:7 Ezekiel 25:1-17 Ezekiel 34:12-13 Zephaniah 3:19-20 Amos 9:14-15 Jeremiah 48:1 Ezekiel 39:27-28 Jeremiah 50:9-17 Jeremiah 32:37 Amos 1:2-15 Psalm 105:15 Jeremiah 51:33-35 Ezekiel 36:24 Zechariah 1:15 Obadiah 1:10-16 Ezekiel 35:1-15 Hosea 1:11 Zechariah 12:2-4 Zechariah 10:6-12 Ezekiel 37:21 Ezekiel 28:25 -
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And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
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And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people to swear by My : ‘As liveth,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of My people.
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- 17 But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith .