New Living Translation (NLT)
Jeremiah 12
11 They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.
12 On all the bare hilltops, destroying armies can be seen. The sword of the LORD devours people from one end of the nation to the other. No one will escape!
13 My people have planted wheat but are harvesting thorns. They have worn themselves out, but it has done them no good. They will harvest a crop of shame because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
14 Now this is what the LORD says: “I will uproot from their land all the evil nations reaching out for the possession I gave my people Israel. And I will uproot Judah from among them.
15 But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own possession.
16 And if these nations truly learn the ways of my people, and if they learn to swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’ (just as they taught my people to swear by the name of Baal), then they will be given a place among my people.
17 But any nation who refuses to obey me will be uprooted and destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Jeremiah 13
1 This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.”
2 So I bought the loincloth as the LORD directed me, and I put it on.
3 Then the LORD gave me another message:
4 “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.”
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