Study Desk

"If you have run with infantrymen and they have tired you out, How can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the ^(C1)thicket by the Jordan?

-"For even your ^(C1)brothers and the household of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you, Even they have called aloud after you. Do not believe them, though they say ^(C2)nice things to you."

"I have ^(C1)forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have handed the ^(C2)beloved of My soul Over to her enemies.

-"My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has ^(F1)(C1)roared against Me; Therefore I have come to ^(C2)hate her.

-"Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me? Are the ^(C1)birds of prey against her on every side? Go, gather all the ^(C2)animals of the field, Bring them to devour!

-"Many ^(C1)shepherds have ruined My ^(C2)vineyard, They have ^(C3)trampled down My field; They have made My ^(C4)pleasant field A desolate wilderness.

-"^(F1)It has been made a desolation; Desolate, it ^(C1)mourns ^(F2)before Me; The ^(C2)whole land has been made desolate, Because no one ^(C3)takes it to heart.

-"On all the ^(F1)(C1)bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For the ^(C2)sword of the LORD is devouring From one end of the land even to the ^(F2)other; There is ^(C3)no peace for ^(F3)anyone.

-"They have ^(C1)sown wheat but have harvested thorns, They have ^(C2)strained themselves ^(F1)to no profit. So be ashamed of your ^(C3)produce Because of the ^(C4)fierce anger of the LORD."