Jeremiah 12:2

World English Bible (2000)

You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

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  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
  • Jer 11:17 : 17 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
  • Ezek 17:5-9 : 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree. 6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. 8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. 9 Say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots. 10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
  • Matt 15:8 : 8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
  • Mark 7:6 : 6 He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says Yahweh.
  • Ezek 19:10-13 : 10 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. 12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them. 13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

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    3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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  • Jer 2:21
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    21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

  • Jer 12:1
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    1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

    9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

  • Ps 80:15-16
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    15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

    16 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • Exod 15:17
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    17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

  • Ps 92:12-14
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    12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

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    8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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    8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9 Say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.

    10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.

  • Isa 17:10-11
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    10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

    11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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    15 I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.

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    13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

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    12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • Jer 20:12
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    12 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

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    10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

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    8 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

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    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

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    5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

    6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

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    2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

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    12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Jer 11:17-18
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    17 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

    18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.

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    2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

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    5 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit].

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    6 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

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    20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

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    6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

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    4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

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    16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

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    2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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    7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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    10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

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    12 Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

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    20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

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    10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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    7 You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

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    5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.