13 “They have (A)sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have (B)strained themselves [a]to no profit.
But be ashamed of your [b](C)harvest
Because of the (D)fierce anger of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:13 Lit they do not profit
  2. Jeremiah 12:13 Lit products

58 Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“The broad (A)wall of Babylon will be completely razed
And her high (B)gates will be set on fire;
So the peoples will (C)toil for nothing,
And the nations become (D)exhausted only for fire.”

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64 and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and (A)not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become (B)exhausted.’” (C)Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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