Jeremiah 12:5-13

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁵ If you have raced men on foot
and they have tired you out,
how will you compete against horses?
If you fall in open country,
how will you manage in the thickets along the Jordan?
⁶ Your relatives and the members of your father’s
    household have betrayed you.
They have raised a loud outcry against you.
Do not trust them when they speak friendly words to you.
⁷ I have abandoned my house.
I have forsaken my heritage.
I have given the one I love dearly into the hands of her enemies.
⁸ My heritage has become like a lion in the forest to me.
She roars at me, so I hate her.
⁹ For me my heritage has become like a howling hyena,
    surrounded by scavenging birds of prey.^[a]
Go and gather all the wild animals.
Bring them to devour her.
¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard
and trampled down my estate.
They will turn my pleasant estate into a desolate wasteland.
¹¹ They have made it a wasteland.
It mourns. It is desolate before me.
The whole land is laid waste,
because there is no one who cares.
¹² Looters are swarming over all the barren heights in the wilderness.
The Lord has a sword that devours from one end of the land
        to the other.
No one will be safe.
¹³ They plant wheat, but they reap thorns.
They wear themselves out, but they gain nothing.
Be ashamed of your harvests,
because of the burning anger of the Lord.