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7 I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies. 8 My heritage has become for Me like a lion in the forest; she has set against Me with her voice; upon thus I have hated her! 9 Is not My inheritance to Me a speckled bird of prey with the bird of prey all around against her? Go gather all the beasts of the field, bring them for food! 10 Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, they have trampled down My portion, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11 They have made her a desolation; she mourns before Me, desolate; all the land has been made desolate! But no man is setting it upon the heart. 12 Upon all the barren heights in the desert the destroyers have come; for the sword of YHWH is devouring from one end of the land even to the other end of the land! No peace is unto any flesh. 13 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have wearied themselves; they did not profit. And they have been ashamed of your? produce, because of the burning nose of YHWH.” 14 Thus says YHWH “Against all my evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I am plucking them from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from their midst! 15 And it will come to pass after I uproot them, that I will return and have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, everyone to his inheritance and everyone to his land. 16 And it will come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘YHWH lives,’ as—they taught My people to swear by Baal—that they will learn they will be built in the midst of My people. 17 And if they will not listen, then I will completely pluck up and destroy that nation! A declaration of YHWH.” Jeremiah 12:7-17, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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