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12 Upon all the barren heights in the desert[a] destroyers have come,
    for the sword of Yahweh devours,
from one end of the land to the other end of the land,
    there is no peace for all flesh.
13 They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns.
    They are exhausted, they do not profit.
And they will be ashamed of your produce,
    because of the burning anger[b] of Yahweh.”

14 Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: “Look, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:12 Or “wilderness”
  2. Jeremiah 12:13 Literally “the blaze of the nose”

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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