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Words by God/Music by Doug Schroeder
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November 29, 2025
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MP3 9.3 MB • 192 kbps • 6:47
Story behind the song
This song was composed on 11/28/2025. Due to switching the lectionary reading series used by most of the churches in our Friday morning Bible Study, the scheduled Old Testament lectionary reading is one we just studied two weeks ago. The Pastor who teaches the rest of the lectionary readings suggested that Jeremiah 12 may be an appropriate substitute, and I agree. The challenge is distinguishing when it is Jeremiah speaking and when it is God responding Jeremiah’s complaint.
Lyrics
1Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the
way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? 2You have planted them, yes, they have
taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind. 3But You, O Lord,
know me; You have seen me, and You have tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 4How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither? The
beasts and birds are consumed, for the wickedness of those who dwell there, because they said, "He will not see our
final end. 5"If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?
And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the
Jordan? 6For even your brothers, the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they
have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, even though they speak smooth words to you. 7"I have
forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
8My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it. 9My heritage is to Me
like a speckled vulture; the vultures all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them
to devour! 10"Many rulers have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion underfoot; they have made My
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11They have made it desolate; desolate, it mourns to Me; the whole land is
made desolate, because no one takes it to heart. 12The plunderers have come on all the desolate heights in the
wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end of the land; no flesh
shall have peace. 13They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain but do not profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord. 14Thus says the Lord: "Against all My evil
neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit--behold, I will pluck them out of
their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. 15Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out,
that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his
land. 16And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the Lord lives,' as
they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. 17But if they do
not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation," says the Lord.
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