Jeremiah 12:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ “Jeremiah, if running in a race against men makes you tired,
    how will you race against horses?
If you trip and fall in a safe place,
    what will you do in a dangerous place?
What will you do in the thornbushes
    that grow along the Jordan River?
⁶ These men are your own brothers.
    Members of your own family are making plans against you.
    People from your own family are shouting at you.
Don’t trust them,
    even when they speak to you like friends.

⁷ “I have abandoned my house.
    I have left my own property.^[a]
I have given Judah, the one I love,
    to her enemies.