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New Living Translation 
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Jeremiah Questions the
lord
’s Justice
The
lord
’s Reply to Jeremiah
A Message for Israel’s Neighbors -
|Jeremias 12:1| lord, you always give me justice
when I bring a case before you.
So let me bring you this complaint:
Why are the wicked so prosperous?
Why are evil people so happy?
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|Jeremias 12:2| You have planted them,
and they have taken root and prospered.
Your name is on their lips,
but you are far from their hearts.
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|Jeremias 12:3| But as for me, lord, you know my heart.
You see me and test my thoughts.
Drag these people away like sheep to be butchered!
Set them aside to be slaughtered!
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|Jeremias 12:4| How long must this land mourn?
Even the grass in the fields has withered.
The wild animals and birds have disappeared
because of the evil in the land.
For the people have said,
“The lord doesn’t see what’s ahead for us!”
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|Jeremias 12:5| “If racing against mere men makes you tired,
how will you race against horses?
If you stumble and fall on open ground,
what will you do in the thickets near the Jordan?
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|Jeremias 12:6| Even your brothers, members of your own family,
have turned against you.
They plot and raise complaints against you.
Do not trust them,
no matter how pleasantly they speak.
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|Jeremias 12:7| “I have abandoned my people, my special possession.
I have surrendered my dearest ones to their enemies.
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|Jeremias 12:8| My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest,
so I have treated them with contempt.
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|Jeremias 12:9| My chosen people act like speckled vultures,
but they themselves are surrounded by vultures.
Bring on the wild animals to pick their corpses clean!
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|Jeremias 12:10| “Many rulers have ravaged my vineyard,
trampling down the vines
and turning all its beauty into a barren wilderness.
