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    "language": "en",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 12
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    "n": 12,
    "bookSlug": "jeremiah",
    "bookCode": "JER",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JER-12:1",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.1",
        "text": "Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JER-12:2",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.2",
        "text": "Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JER-12:3",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.3",
        "text": "But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JER-12:4",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.4",
        "text": "How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JER-12:5",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.5",
        "text": "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JER-12:6",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.6",
        "text": "For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JER-12:7",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.7",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JER-12:8",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.8",
        "text": "My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JER-12:9",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.9",
        "text": "Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JER-12:10",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.10",
        "text": "Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JER-12:11",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.11",
        "text": "They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JER-12:12",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.12",
        "text": "Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JER-12:13",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.13",
        "text": "They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JER-12:14",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.14",
        "text": "Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that 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."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JER-12:15",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.15",
        "text": "And it shall come to pass, 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."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JER-12:16",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.16",
        "text": "And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JER-12:17",
        "verseRef": "Jer.12.17",
        "text": "But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah."
      }
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