God’s answer

‘If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble[a] in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets by[b] the Jordan?
Your relatives, members of your own family –
    even they have betrayed you;
    they have raised a loud cry against you.
Do not trust them,
    though they speak well of you.

‘I will forsake my house,
    abandon my inheritance;
I will give the one I love
    into the hands of her enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:5 Or you feel secure only
  2. Jeremiah 12:5 Or the flooding of