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OCTOBER 13
And You have tested my heart toward The vultures all around are against her.
You. Come, assemble all the beasts of the
Pull them out like sheep for the field,
slaughter, Bring them to devour!
And prepare them for the day of 10 “Many rulers have destroyed My
slaughter.
4 How long will the land mourn, vineyard,
And the herbs of every field wither? They have trodden My portion
underfoot;
The beasts and birds are consumed, They have made My pleasant portion a
For the wickedness of those who dwell desolate wilderness.
there, 11
Because they said, “He will not see our They have made it desolate;
Desolate, it mourns to Me;
final end.”
The whole land is made desolate,
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and Because no one takes it to heart.
they have wearied you, 12 The plunderers have come
Then how can you contend with horses? On all the desolate heights in the
And if in the land of peace, wilderness,
In which you trusted, they wearied you, For the sword of the LORD shall devour
Then how will you do in the floodplain From one end of the land to the other
of the Jordan? end of the land;
No flesh shall have peace.
13 They have sown wheat but reaped
thorns;
They have put themselves to pain but
12:5 If you have run. The Lord replied to do not profit.
Jeremiah telling him that if he grew faint with But be ashamed of your harvest
lesser trials and felt like quitting, what would Because of the fierce anger of the
he do when the battle got even harder? LORD.”
floodplain of the Jordan. The river in flood
stage overflowed its banks into a plain that 14 Thus says the LORD: “Against all My evil
grew up as a thicket. The point is that neighbors who touch the inheritance which I
Jeremiah needed to be ready to deal with have caused My people Israel to inherit—be-
tougher testings, pictured by the invader’s hold, I will pluck them out of their land and
overwhelming the land like a flood, or posing pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
high danger as in the Jordan thicket where 15 Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out,
concealed wild animals could terrify a person. that I will return and have compassion on them
and bring them back, everyone to his heritage
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and everyone to his land. And it shall be, if
they will learn carefully the ways of My people,
6 For even your brothers, the house of
your father, to swear by My name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ as
Even they have dealt treacherously they taught My people to swear by Baal, then
they shall be established in the midst of My peo-
with you; 17
Yes, they have called a multitude after ple. But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck
up and destroy that nation,” says the LORD.
you.
Do not believe them, Psalm 118:10–14
Even though they speak smooth words 10 All nations surrounded me,
to you.
But in the name of the LORD I will
7 “I have forsaken My house, I have left destroy them.
My heritage; 11 They surrounded me,
I have given the dearly beloved of My Yes, they surrounded me;
soul into the hand of her enemies. But in the name of the LORD I will
8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the destroy them.
forest; 12 They surrounded me like bees;
It cries out against Me; They were quenched like a fire of
Therefore I have hated it. thorns;
9 My heritage is to Me like a speckled For in the name of the LORD I will
vulture; destroy them.

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