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Jeremiah 12:3

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1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

2 You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

4 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

5 “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

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BSB
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
KJV
But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
WEB
But you, LORD, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
ASV
But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
DARBY
But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
BLB
And You, O YHWH, know me; You have seen me and have tested my heart toward You. May you pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter!
ÅB
Men du, Herre, du kjenner meg, du ser meg og prøver mitt hjertelag mot deg; ta dem bort som sauer til å slaktes og innvi dem til en drapsdag!
OTB
Men du kjenner meg, Herre; du ser meg og gransker mitt hjertes holdning mot deg. Dra dem bort som sauer til slakt, og sett dem til side for slaktedagen!
B1930
Men du, Herre, du kjenner mig, du ser mig og prøver mitt hjertelag mot dig; ta dem bort som får til å slaktes og innvi dem til en drapsdag!

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Cross references

  • 2 Kings 20:3

    “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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  • Jeremiah 17:18

    Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

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  • Psalms 139:1–4

    O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

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  • James 5:5

    You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

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  • Psalms 17:3

    You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

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  • Jeremiah 50:27

    Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

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  • Psalms 26:1

    Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

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  • Psalms 44:21–22

    would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

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