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12 Over all the desert roads
    destroyers march;
        for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
        no one is safe.
13 They have sown wheat and reaped weeds;
    they have worn themselves out for nothing.
They will be ashamed of their[a] harvest
    on account of the Lord’s fierce anger.

14 The Lord proclaims: The evil nations have seized the land[b] that I gave my people Israel. I’m going to dig them up from their own lands, and I will dig up the people of Judah from among them.

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  1. Jeremiah 12:13 Or your
  2. Jeremiah 12:14 Or inheritance

12 Over all the barren heights in the desert
    destroyers will swarm,
for the sword(A) of the Lord(B) will devour(C)
    from one end of the land to the other;(D)
    no one will be safe.(E)
13 They will sow wheat but reap thorns;
    they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.(F)
They will bear the shame of their harvest
    because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”(G)

14 This is what the Lord says: “As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance(H) I gave my people Israel, I will uproot(I) them from their lands and I will uproot(J) the people of Judah from among them.

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