Jeremiah 12:5

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God’s Answer

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble^[a] in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets^(A) by^[b] the Jordan?

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Jeremiah 12:5 Or you feel secure only
Jeremiah 12:5 Or the flooding of

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Jeremiah 25:9

New International Version

⁹I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a]^(E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)

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Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

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Jeremiah 50:44-45

New International Version

⁴⁴Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets^(A)
    to a rich pastureland,
I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant.
    Who is the chosen^(B) one I will appoint for this?
Who is like me and who can challenge me?^(C)
    And what shepherd can stand against me?”

⁴⁵Therefore, hear what the Lord has planned against Babylon,
what he has purposed^(D) against the land of the Babylonians:^(E)
The young of the flock will be dragged away;
their pasture will be appalled at their fate.