Jeremiah 12:3-5

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³ But you know everything about me, Lord.
    You watch me carefully to test me.
    You know what I am thinking.
You should kill those wicked men, as they deserve!
    Take them away like sheep,
    to kill them when the time is right.
⁴ Our land has been dry for a long time.
    The grass everywhere is dying.
How long will this continue?
    The animals and the birds are dying.
This has happened because the people who live in this land do wicked things.
They like to boast,

⁵ ‘Jeremiah, you are running a race against people,
    and you are already tired!
So you will never be able to run a race against horses.
You are walking in flat fields,
    and you still fall over!
So it will be much worse when you try to run
    through the trees and bushes near the Jordan River.^[a]