The Lord’s Response

If you have raced with runners
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble[a] in a peaceful land,
what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?(A)
Even your brothers—your own father’s family—
even they were treacherous to you;(B)
even they have cried out loudly after you.(C)
Do not have confidence in them,
though they speak well of you.

I have abandoned my house;(D)
I have deserted my inheritance.
I have handed the love of my life
over to her enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:5 Or you are secure

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