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Jeremiah 12:2

A Conservative Version

Thou have planted them. Yea, they have taken root, they grow. Yea, they bring forth fruit. Thou are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

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And LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me (LXX/NT), teaching the commandments and doctrines of men

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

For LORD of hosts, who planted thee, has pronounced evil against thee because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Thus thou shall say to him, Thus says LORD: Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, and this in the whole land.

And having answered, he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says LORD.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.




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