Jeremiah 12

1Righteous you, O Yahuah, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of judgments: therefore does the way of the wicked prosper? are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 2you hast planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you near in their mouth, and far from their reins. 3But you, O Yahuah, knowest me: you hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. 5If you hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how canst you contend with horses? and in the land of peace, you trustedst, , then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan? 6For even your brethren, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you. 7I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. 8Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. 9Mine heritage unto me a speckled bird, the birds round about against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. 10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11They have made it desolate, desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth to heart. 12The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the Yahuah shall devour from the end of the land even to the end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. 13They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Yahuah. 14Thus says the Yahuah against all mine evil neighbours, that 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. 15And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. 16And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Yahuah liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. 17But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the Yahuah.