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The Lord’s Reply

“If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary,
    then how will you compete with horses?
If you have fallen in a peaceful land,[a]
    then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
For even your relatives, and the house of your father,
    even they have dealt treacherously with you,
even they call loudly[b] after you.
    You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.
I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance.
    I have given the beloved one of my heart[c] into the hand of her enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:5 Literally “a land of peace”
  2. Jeremiah 12:6 Literally “full”
  3. Jeremiah 12:7 Literally “soul”