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Jeremiah 12:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.


They claim to know God,  but they deny him by their works.  They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.


This people   honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


‘The Lord of Armies who planted you  has decreed disaster against you, because of the disaster  the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves when they angered me by burning incense to Baal.’


So my people come to you in crowds,  sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.


‘This is what you are to say to him: “This is what the Lord says: ‘What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot   #– #the whole land!


He answered them, ‘Isaiah   prophesied   correctly about you hypocrites,   as it is written: This people honours   me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart   #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.


Your eyes  are too pure  to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous? Why are you silent while one  who is wicked swallows up one  who is more righteous than himself?


From the city, men   groan; the mortally wounded cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime.


They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves  , for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.





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