Jeremiah 12:12-14

New International Reader's Version

¹² Many will come to destroy it.
    They will gather on the bare hilltops in the desert.
I will use them as my sword to destroy my people.
    They will kill them from one end of the land to the other.
    No one will be safe.
¹³ People will plant wheat. But all they will gather is thorns.
    They will wear themselves out. But they will not have anything to show for it.
I am very angry with them.
    So they will be ashamed of the crop they gather.”