Jeremiah 12:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

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  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • Jer 11:17 : 17 For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;
  • Ezek 17:5-9 : 5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree. 6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves. 7 And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water. 8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine. 9 Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots? 10 And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
  • Matt 15:8 : 8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
  • Mark 7:6 : 6 And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 19:10-13 : 10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters. 11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches. 12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it. 13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.

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    3But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

    4How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Jer 2:21
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    21But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

  • Jer 12:1
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    1You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

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  • Ps 80:15-16
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    15Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

    16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Exod 15:17
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    17You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

  • Ps 92:12-14
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    12The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

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    13You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

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    8For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

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    8He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

    9Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

    10And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

  • Isa 17:10-11
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    10For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

    11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Amos 9:15
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    15And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

  • Jer 12:13
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    13Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Jer 20:12
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    12But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

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    10Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

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    8But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

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    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

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    18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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    5And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

    6And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

  • Ps 44:2
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    2Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

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    17For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

    18And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.

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    2And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

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    5Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

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    29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

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    6They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

  • Jer 11:20
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    20But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

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    6In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

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    4Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Matt 7:16
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    16By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

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    2The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

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    7When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

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    10Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

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    12This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

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    20So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

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    10The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

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    7You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.

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    5But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)