Jeremiah 12:7–14

God’s Answer

7 “I have aforsaken My house,

I have abandoned My inheritance;

I have given the bbeloved of My soul

Into the hand of her enemies.

8 “My inheritance has become to Me

Like a lion in the forest;

She has 1aroared against Me;

Therefore I have come to bhate her.

9 “Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me?

Are the abirds of prey against her on every side?

Go, gather all the bbeasts of the field,

Bring them to devour!

10 “Many ashepherds have ruined My bvineyard,

They have ctrampled down My field;

They have made My dpleasant field

A desolate wilderness.

11 “1It has been made a desolation,

Desolate, it amourns 2before Me;

The bwhole land has been made desolate,

Because no man clays it to heart.

12 “On all the 1abare heights in the wilderness

Destroyers have come,

For a bsword of the Lord is devouring

From one end of the land even to the 2other;

There is cno peace for 3anyone.

13 “They have asown wheat and have reaped thorns,

They have bstrained themselves 1to no profit.

But be ashamed of your 2charvest

Because of the dfierce anger of the Lord.”

14 Thus says the Lord concerning all My awicked neighbors who bstrike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will cuproot the house of Judah from among them.