The Lord Answers Jeremiah
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"If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you,
how will you compete with horses?
And if in a safe land you are so trusting,
what will you do in x the thicket of the Jordan?
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For y even your brothers and the house of your father,
o even they have dealt treacherously with you;
they are in full cry after you;
z do not believe them,
though they speak friendly words to you."
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"I have forsaken my house;
I have abandoned a my heritage;
I have given b the beloved of my soul
into the hands of her enemies.
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a My heritage has become to me
like a lion in the forest;
she has lifted up her voice against me;
therefore I hate her.
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Is a my heritage to me like c a hyena's lair?
Are the c birds of prey against her all around?
Go, d assemble all the wild beasts;
bring them to devour.
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Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
e they have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
a desolate wilderness.
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They have made it a desolation;
desolate, u it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
f but no man lays it to heart.
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Upon all the bare heights in the desert
destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other;
no flesh has peace.
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g They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
h they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their harvests
i because of the fierce anger of the Lord."
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Thus says the Lord concerning all j my evil neighbors k who touch the heritage that l I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
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And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, m and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
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And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, n to swear by my name, 'As the Lord lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, o then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
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p But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the Lord."
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Jeremiah 49:19
Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Jeremiah 50:44
Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Zechariah 11:3
The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
Joshua 3:15
And as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest).
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Jeremiah 9:4
Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.
Jeremiah 11:21
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand" -
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Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
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Proverbs 26:25
When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
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Isaiah 19:25
Whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.
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Jeremiah 11:15
What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
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Jeremiah 12:7
I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
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Jeremiah 12:7
I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
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Isaiah 46:11
Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
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Isaiah 46:11
Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
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Jeremiah 7:33
And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.
Isaiah 56:9
All you beasts of the field, come to devour - all you beasts in the forest.
Ezekiel 39:17
As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God : Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.
Revelation 19:17
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come, gather for the great supper of God.
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Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
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Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end.
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Isaiah 42:25
So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
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Jeremiah 4:8
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Jeremiah 4:26
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Jeremiah 25:37 - 38
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Jeremiah 30:24
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Jeremiah 49:37
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Jeremiah 51:45
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Lamentations 1:12
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Lamentations 4:11
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Psalms 137:7
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!
Ezekiel 25:1
The word of the Lord came to me:
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Zechariah 2:8
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
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Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
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Jeremiah 48:47
Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the Lord." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Jeremiah 49:6
"But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the Lord."
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Jeremiah 4:2
And if you swear, 'As the Lord lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
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Jeremiah 24:6
I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
1 Peter 2:5
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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Isaiah 60:12
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
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