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Jeremiah 12:2-4
Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah 12:2-4
Contemporary English Version
2 You plant them like trees;
you let them prosper
and produce fruit.
Yet even when they praise you,
they don't mean it.
3 But you know, Lord,
how faithful I've always been,
even in my thoughts.
So drag my enemies away
and butcher them like sheep!
4 How long will the ground be dry
and the pasturelands parched?
The birds and animals
are dead and gone.
And all of this happened because
the people are so sinful.
They even brag, “God can't see
the sins we commit.”[a]
Footnotes
- 12.4 God can't see the sins we commit: One ancient translation; Hebrew “He won't live to see what happens to us.”
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