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Jeremiah 12:4 (NKJV)
How long will the land mourn, And the herbs of every field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed, For the wickedness of those who dwell there, Because they said, “He will not see our final end.”
 

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Jeremiah 12:5 (NIV)

“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, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
 

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Jeremiah 12:6 (NIV)

Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you.
Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
 

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Jeremiah 12:7 (NKJV)

“I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
 

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Jeremiah 12:8 (NKJV)

My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;
It cries out against Me;
Therefore I have hated it.
 

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They have made it desolate; Desolate, it mourns to Me; The whole land is made desolate, Because no one takes it to heart.

- Jeremiah 12:11 (NKJV)
 

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The plunderers have come On all the desolate heights in the wilderness, For the sword of the LORD shall devour From one end of the land to the other end of the land; No flesh shall have peace.

- Jeremiah 12:12 (NKJV)
 

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They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

- Jeremiah 12:13 (NKJV)
 

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Thus says the LORD: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

- Jeremiah 12:14 (NKJV)
 

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"Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.

- Jeremiah 12:15 (NKJV)
 

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Jeremiah 12:16 (NIV)

And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives”
– even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal – then they will be established among my people.
 

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Jeremiah 12:17 (NIV)

But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,’ declares the Lord.
 

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"Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock."

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Jeremiah 13:4 (NKJV)
 

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Jeremiah 13:6 (NIV)

Many days later the Lord said to me, ‘Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.’