Today is the 9th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you around the global campfire taking the next step forward together.

That will lead us to continue our journey in the book of Jeremiah.

Once we get to the New Testament, we'll be moving into a brand new letter from the Apostle Paul.

A letter to the Thessalonians. The first ones. First Thessalonians. We'll talk about that when we get there.

Jeremiah, chapter 12, verse 1, through 14, verse 10.

If I took you to court, Lord, you would win. But I still have questions about your justice.

Why do guilty persons enjoy success? Why are evil doers so happy?

You plan them and they take root. They flourish in bare fruits. You are always on their lips, but far from their hearts.

Yet you, Lord, you know me. You see me. You can tell that I love you.

So drag them away and butcher them like sheep. Prepare them for this slaughterhouse.

How long will the land mourn and the grass and the fields dry up? The animals and birds are swept away due to the evil of those in the land.

The people say, God doesn't see what we're up to. If you have raised with people and are worn out, how will you compete with horses?

If you fall down in an open field, how will you survive in the forest along the Jordan?

Even your relatives, your very family, are planning to trap you. They are out to get you, so don't trust them.

Even if they appear to be on your side, I have abandoned my house. I have deserted my inheritance.

I have given the one I love into the power of her enemies. My inheritance has turned against me like a lion in the forest.

She growls at me, therefore I have rejected her. My inheritance has become like a bird of prey, surrounded and attacked.

Go, gather all the wild animals for the feast.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trampled down my field. They have reduced my treasured fields to a desolate wilderness.

They have devastated her. Desolate, she cries out to me in distress.

The whole land is desolate and no one seems to care.

Over all the desert roads, destroyers march. For the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other. No one is safe.

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