Jeremiah 12:5-13

Lexham English Bible

⁵ “If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary,
    then how will you compete with horses?
If you have fallen in a peaceful land,^[a]
    then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
⁶ For even your relatives, and the house of your father,
    even they have dealt treacherously with you,
even they call loudly^[b] after you.
    You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.
⁷ I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance.
    I have given the beloved one of my heart^[c] into the hand of her enemies.
⁸ My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest.
    She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore^[d] I hate her.
⁹ The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me,
    the birds of prey^[e] are all around her.
Go, gather all of the animals^[f] of the field,
    bring them to come and devour.^[g]
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard,
    they have trampled down my plot of land.
They have made my pleasant field^[h]
    like the desert^[i] of desolation.
¹¹ They have made it a desolation.
    Desolate, it mourns to me.
All the land is made desolate,
    but there is no person taking it to heart.
¹² Upon all the barren heights in the desert^[j] destroyers have come,
    for the sword of Yahweh devours,
from one end of the land to the other end of the land,
    there is no peace for all flesh.
¹³ They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns.
    They are exhausted, they do not profit.
And they will be ashamed of your produce,
    because of the burning anger^[k] of Yahweh.”