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Jeremiah 12:5

World English Bible

“If you have run with the footmen,
and they have wearied you,
then how can you contend with horses?
Though in a land of peace you are secure,
yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

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Jeremiah 12:5 in other translations

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

Jeremiah 12:5 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 12:5 in context

  1. 3But you, Yahweh, know me.
    You see me, and test my heart toward you.
    Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
    and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  2. 4How long will the land mourn,
    and the herbs of the whole country wither?
    Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein,
    the animals and birds are consumed;
    because they said,
    “He won’t see our latter end.”
  3. 5“If you have run with the footmen,
    and they have wearied you,
    then how can you contend with horses?
    Though in a land of peace you are secure,
    yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
  4. 6For even your brothers, and the house of your father,
    even they have dealt treacherously with you!
    Even they have cried aloud after you!
    Don’t believe them,
    though they speak beautiful words to you.
  5. 7“I have forsaken my house.
    I have cast off my heritage.
    I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.