Jeremiah 12: 1-17 Terry Allen, The Prophet's Problem

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A mini episode from brother Terry Allen, he reads
Jeremiah 12 verses 1- 17.





Let this word wash over you, may this mini episode bless you and
stir up your desire to read the words of life.


Jeremiah 12





1 You are always
righteous, Lord,
    when I bring a case before
you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:
    Why does the way of the wicked
prosper?
    Why do all the faithless live at
ease?
2 You have planted them, and they have
taken root;
    they grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips
    but far from their hearts.
3 Yet you know me, Lord;
    you see me and test my thoughts
about you.
Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!
    Set them apart for the day of
slaughter!
4 How long will the land lie parched
    and the grass in every field be
withered?
Because those who live in it are wicked,
    the animals and birds have
perished.
Moreover, the people are saying,
    “He will not see what happens to us.”


5 “If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble[a] in safe country,
    how will you manage in the
thickets by[b] the Jordan?
6 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.


7 “I will forsake my house,
    abandon my inheritance;
I will give the one I love
    into the hands of her enemies.
8 My inheritance has become to me
    like a lion in the forest.
She roars at me;
    therefore I hate her.
9 Has not my inheritance become to me
    like a speckled bird of prey
    that other birds of prey surround and
attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.
10 Many shepherds will ruin my
vineyard
    and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
    into a desolate wasteland.
11 It will be made a wasteland,
    parched and desolate before me;
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.
12 Over all the barren heights in the
desert
    destroyers will swarm,
for the sword of the Lord will devour
    from one end of the land to the
other;
    no one will be safe.
13 They will sow wheat but reap
thorns;
    they will wear themselves out but gain
nothing.
They will bear the shame of their harvest
    because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”


14 This is what the Lord says:
“As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I
gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands
and I will uproot the people of Judah from among
them. 15 But after I uproot them, I
will again have compassion and will bring each of them
back to their own inheritance and their own
country. 16 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. 17 But if any nation
does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,”
declares the Lord.








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