Bible verse

Jeremiah 12:17

But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 12:17 · BSB

Jeremiah 12:17 in context

The verses around it, from Jeremiah 12.

13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

14 This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

15 But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

16 And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

17 But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

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Jeremiah 12:17 in other translations

KJV

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

ASV

But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah.

ERV

But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith the LORD.

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