# Jeremiah 12 📖
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[[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Jeremiah Appeals to God
[[#Verse 01.]] Lord, you have always been fair
whenever I have complained to you.
However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice.
Why are wicked people successful?
Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?
[[#Verse 02.]] You plant them like trees and they put down their roots.
They grow prosperous and are very fruitful.
They always talk about you,
but they really care nothing about you.
[[#Verse 03.]] But you, Lord, know all about me.
You watch me and test my devotion to you.
Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered!
Appoint a time when they will be killed!
[[#Verse 04.]] How long must the land be parched
and the grass in every field be withered?
How long must the animals and the birds die
because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land?
For these people boast,
“God will not see what happens to us.”
### God Answers Jeremiah
[[#Verse 05.]] The Lord answered,“If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses?
And if you feel secure only in safe and open country,
how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?
[[#Verse 06.]] As a matter of fact, even your own brothers
and the members of your own family have betrayed you as well.
Even they have plotted to do away with you.
So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.
[[#Verse 07.]] “I will abandon my nation.
I will forsake the people I call my own.
I will turn my beloved people
over to the power of their enemies.
[[#Verse 08.]] The people I call my own have turned on me
like a lion in the forest.
They have roared defiantly at me,
so I will treat them as though I hate them.
[[#Verse 09.]] The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas.
But other birds of prey are all around them.
Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts.
Let them come and destroy these people I call my own.
[[#Verse 10.]] Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people.
They will trample all over my chosen land.
They will turn my beautiful land
into a desolate wilderness.
[[#Verse 11.]] They will lay it waste.
It will lie parched and empty before me.
The whole land will be laid waste,
but no one living in it will pay any heed.
[[#Verse 12.]] A destructive army will come marching
over the hilltops in the wilderness.
For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon
against everyone from one end of the land to the other.
No one will be safe.
[[#Verse 13.]] My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds.
They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it.
They will be disappointed in their harvests
because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.
[[#Verse 14.]] “I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say: ‘I will uproot the people of those nations from their land and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.
[[#Verse 15.]] But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands and to their own country.
[[#Verse 16.]] But they must make sure to learn to follow the religious practices of my people. Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives, I swear.” If they do these things, then they will be included among the people I call my own.
[[#Verse 17.]] But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” says the Lord.
## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary==
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## 🧠 Chapter Summary
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## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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#### Today, I can apply this chapter by:
- ✅ Application 1
- ✅ Application 2
Make these very practical:
- "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation."
- "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular."
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- What do we learn about God here?
- What do we learn about people?
- Are there promises, commands, or warnings?
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- John 1:1 and Genesis 1
- Romans 5 and Genesis 3
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