1 | Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? | Jer 11:20 Gn 18:25 Dt 32:4 Ps 51:4 Ps 119:75 Ps 119:137 Ps 145:17 Dn 9:7 Hab 1:13-17 Zep 3:5 Ro 3:5 Ro 3:6 |
2 | You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. | Jer 11:17 Jer 45:4 Ezk 17:5-10 Ezk 19:10-13 |
3 | But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. | Jer 11:20 2Ki 20:3 1Ch 29:17 Jb 23:10 Ps 17:3 Ps 26:1 Ps 44:21 Ps 139:1 Ps 139:23 Jn 21:17 1Jn 3:20 1Jn 3:21 |
4 | How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end. | Jer 9:10 Jer 14:2 Jer 23:10 |
5 | If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan? | Pr 3:11 Pr 24:10 Heb 12:3 Heb 12:4 1Pe 4:12 |
6 | For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don`t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. | Jer 9:4 Jer 11:19 Jer 11:21 Jer 20:10 Gn 37:4-11 Jb 6:15 Ps 69:8 Ezk 33:30 Ezk 33:31 Mic 7:5 Mic 7:6 Mt 10:21 Mk 12:12 Jn 7:5 |
7 | I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. | Jer 11:15 Jer 51:5 Isa 2:6 Ps 78:59 Ps 78:60 Hos 9:15 Jl 2:15 Jl 3:2 |
8 | My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. | Jer 2:15 Jer 51:38 |
9 | Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour. | Jer 2:15 2Ki 24:2 Ezk 16:36 Ezk 16:37 Ezk 23:22-25 Rev 17:16 |
10 | Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. | Jer 6:3 Jer 25:9 Jer 39:3 |
11 | They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. | Jer 6:8 Jer 9:11 Jer 10:22 Jer 10:25 Jer 19:8 |
12 | Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace. | Jer 4:11-15 Jer 9:19-21 |
13 | They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. | Lv 26:16 Dt 28:38 Mic 6:15 Hg 1:6 Hg 2:16 Hg 2:17 |
14 | Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. | Jer 48:26 Jer 48:27 Jer 50:9-17 Jer 51:33-35 Ezk 25:3-15 Am 1:2-15 Zep 2:8-10 |
15 | It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. | Jer 48:47 Jer 49:6 Jer 49:39 Dt 30:3 Isa 23:17 Isa 23:18 |
16 | It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people. | Jer 4:2 Jer 5:2 Dt 10:20 Dt 10:21 So 1:8 Isa 9:18-21 Isa 45:23 Isa 65:16 Ro 14:11 |
17 | But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh. | Ps 2:8-12 Isa 60:12 Zc 14:16-19 Lk 19:27 2Th 1:8 1Pe 2:6-8 |