15 (A)These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

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“If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out,
Then how can you compete with horses?
If you fall down in a land of peace,
How will you do in the [a](A)thicket of the Jordan?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:5 Lit pride

19 (A)Behold, one will come up like a lion from the [a](B)thickets of the Jordan against [b]a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is (C)chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is (D)like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd (E)who can stand against Me?”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:19 Lit pride
  2. Jeremiah 49:19 Or an enduring habitation