Jeremiah 12:5

New International Version

God’s Answer

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble^[a] in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets^(A) by^[b] the Jordan?

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Jeremiah 12:6

New International Version

⁶Your relatives, members of your own family—
    even they have betrayed you;
    they have raised a loud cry against you.^(A)
Do not trust them,
    though they speak well of you.^(B)

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Jeremiah 26:8

New International Version

⁸But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded^(A) him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized^(B) him and said, “You must die!^(C)

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Jeremiah 38:4

New International Version

⁴Then the officials^(A) said to the king, “This man should be put to death.^(B) He is discouraging^(C) the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”

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