Jeremiah 12:1-16

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Jeremiah's Complaint

12 ^(A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
    when I complain to you;
    yet I would plead my case before you.
^(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
    Why do all ^(C)who are treacherous thrive?
²You plant them, and they take root;
    they grow and produce fruit;
^(D)you are near in their mouth
    and far from their heart.
³^(E)But you, O Lord, know me;
    ^(F)you see me, and test my heart toward you.
^(G)Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
    and set them apart for ^(H)the day of slaughter.
⁴^(I)How long will the land mourn
    and the grass of every field wither?
^(J)For the evil of those who dwell in it
    ^(K)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

The Lord Answers Jeremiah

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you,
    how will you compete with horses?
And if in a safe land you are so trusting,
    what will you do in ^(L)the thicket of the Jordan?
⁶For ^(M)even your brothers and the house of your father,
    ^(N)even they have dealt treacherously with you;
    they are in full cry after you;
^(O)do not believe them,
    though they speak friendly words to you.”

⁷“I have forsaken my house;
    I have abandoned ^(P)my heritage;
I have given ^(Q)the beloved of my soul
    into the hands of her enemies.
⁸^(R)My heritage has become to me
    like a lion in the forest;
she has lifted up her voice against me;
    therefore I hate her.
⁹Is ^(S)my heritage to me like ^(T)a hyena's lair?
    Are the ^(U)birds of prey against her all around?
Go, ^(V)assemble all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.
¹⁰Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
    ^(W)they have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
    a desolate wilderness.
¹¹They have made it a desolation;
    desolate, ^(X)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
    ^(Y)but no man lays it to heart.
¹²Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.
¹³^(Z)They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
    ^(AA)they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their^[a] harvests
    ^(AB)because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

¹⁴Thus says the Lord concerning all ^(AC)my evil neighbors ^(AD)who touch the heritage that ^(AE)I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. ¹⁵And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, ^(AF)and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. ¹⁶And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, ^(AG)to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, ^(AH)then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

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Jeremiah 12:13 Hebrew your

Philippians 3:1-14

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Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

3 Finally, my brothers,^[a] ^(A)rejoice in the Lord. ^(B)To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.

²Look out for ^(C)the dogs, look out for ^(D)the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. ³For ^(E)we are the circumcision, ^(F)who worship ^(G)by the Spirit of God^[b] and ^(H)glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— ⁴^(I)though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵^(J)circumcised on the eighth day, ^(K)of the people of Israel, ^(L)of the tribe of Benjamin, ^(M)a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, ^(N)a Pharisee; ⁶^(O)as to zeal, ^(P)a persecutor of the church; ^(Q)as to righteousness under the law,^[c] blameless. ⁷But ^(R)whatever gain I had, ^(S)I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸Indeed, I count everything as loss because of ^(T)the surpassing worth of ^(U)knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I ^(V)have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having ^(W)a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but ^(X)that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— ¹⁰^(Y)that I may know him and ^(Z)the power of his resurrection, and ^(AA)may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹that by any means possible I may ^(AB)attain the resurrection from the dead.

Straining Toward the Goal

¹²Not that I have already ^(AC)obtained this or ^(AD)am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. ¹³Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: ^(AE)forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for ^(AF)the prize of the upward ^(AG)call of God in Christ Jesus.

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Philippians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 13, 17
Philippians 3:3 Some manuscripts God in spirit
Philippians 3:6 Greek in the law

John 12:9-19

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The Plot to Kill Lazarus

⁹When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus^[a] was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, ^(A)whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰^(B)So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, ¹¹because ^(C)on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

The Triumphal Entry

¹²The next day ^(D)the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. ¹³So they took branches of ^(E)palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, ^(F)“Hosanna! Blessed is ^(G)he who comes in the name of the Lord, even ^(H)the King of Israel!” ¹⁴And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

¹⁵^(I)“Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey's colt!”

¹⁶^(J)His disciples did not understand these things at first, but ^(K)when Jesus was glorified, then ^(L)they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. ¹⁷^(M)The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. ¹⁸The reason why the crowd went to meet him ^(N)was that they heard he had done this sign. ¹⁹So the Pharisees said to one another, ^(O)“You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, ^(P)the world has gone after him.”