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    "content": "Jeremias, Chapter 12 — 17 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Jeremias 12 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as for the day of slaughter.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a desolate wilderness.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Thus saith the Lord against all wicked neighbours, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have mercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man into his land.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and will learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as they have taught my people to swear by Baal: that they shall be built up in the midst of my people.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.",
      "citation": "Jeremias 12:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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