Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 12:10
A wilderness — They have caused God to turn the country which he had chosen for his portion, into a wilderness.
A wilderness — They have caused God to turn the country which he had chosen for his portion, into a wilderness.
Verse Jeremiah 12:10. _MANY PASTORS HAVE DESTROYED MY VINEYARD_] My people have had many kinds of enemies which have fed upon their richest pastures; the Philistines, the Moabites, Ammonites, Assyrian...
Nebuchadnezzar and his confederate kings trampled Judah under foot, as heedless of the ruin they were inflicting as the shepherds would be who led their flocks to browse in spring upon the tender shoo...
CHAPTER 12 The Prophet's Prayer and the House Forsaken, Yet Compassion _ 1. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 12:1) 2. The house forsaken, yet compassion (Jeremiah 12:7) _ Jeremiah 12:1. In his outburs...
THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH BY HER NEIGHBOURS, AND THEIR FUTURE. This isolated prophecy is most naturally referred to the events of 2 Kings 24:1 f., when Jehoiakim had revolted against Nebuchadrezzar (_c....
PASTORS. Used of rulers. See note on Jeremiah 1:80; Jeremiah 3:15. MY PORTION. One Codex (Dr. Ginsburg's "G. 1") reads "My possession". PLEASANT PORTION. Hebrew portion of desire. my desired portion...
Jeremiah 12:7-17. Devastation of Judah to be wrought by hostile neighbours, who shall be punished by exile unless they submit to the God of Israel Jehovah in pathetic language deplores the necessity...
_shepherds_ See on Jeremiah 6:3. _vineyard_ For this figure cp. Isaiah 5:1 ff. _have trodden my portion under foot_ The figure is that of the destruction of vineyards by wandering hordes and their f...
MANY PASTORS— _Many eaters,_ or _devourers._ The same persons here are meant as in chap. Jeremiah 6:3 namely, Nebuchadnezzar and his army....
IV. THE PAIN OF GOD Jeremiah 12:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) I have forsaken My house, I have left My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies. (8) My inheritance has be...
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my...
12:10 destroyed (d-4) As 'corrupted,' Deuteronomy 9:12 ....
1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....
PASTORS] leaders of the invading armies: cp. Jeremiah 6:3, where they axe called 'shepherds.'...
MANY PASTORS HAVE DESTROYED MY VINEYARD. — The use of the word “pastors,” with all its modern spiritual associations, instead of “shepherds” (Jeremiah is the only book in the Old Testament, it may be...
רֹעִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ כַרְמִ֔י בֹּסְס֖וּ אֶת...
CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...
Now we hear the prophet as he appealed to Jehovah to be his Defender, and. finally, we hear the divine determination. concerning his evil neighbors. This peril was revealed to him by Jehovah. It was...
Many shepherds have destroyed my (k) vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. (k) He prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem, by...
_Pastors; princes of my people, as well (Haydock) as of the Chaldeans, chap. vi. 3._...
I hope that I do not use any violence to this passage, neither strain the holy scripture, when I say, that after everything which may be said, in allusion here to Israel, I venture to consider somewha...
He explains by another comparison what we have just observed; he calls those pastors or shepherds whom he had before compared to wild beasts; for by saying, “Come ye, all the wild beasts of the wood,”...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the call to o...
MANY PASTORS HAVE DESTROYED MY VINEYARD,.... This is a metaphor which is often used of the people of Israel and Judah; see Psalms 80:8, the pastors that destroyed them are not their own governors, ci...
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. Ver. 10. _Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard._] Those...
_Many pastures have destroyed my vineyard Many eaters_, or _devourers_, as Dr. Waterland translates רעים רבים, by which the Chaldee Paraphrast understands the generals of the Chaldean army, an interpr...
Many pastors, the very ones who were expected to give the Church the proper spiritual care, HAVE DESTROYED MY VINEYARD; THEY, together with the heathen kings and their hordes, HAVE TRODDEN MY PORTION,...
ISRAEL SPOILED BY THE ENEMIES...
PLEASANT PORTION: _ Heb._ portion of desire...
7-13 God's people had been the dearly-beloved of his soul, precious in his sight, but they acted so, that he gave them up to their enemies. Many professing churches become like speckled birds, presen...
By PASTORS most here think civil persons, not ecclesiastical officers, are meant; but they are divided, some interpreting it of the rulers and princes of Nebuchadnezzar's army, who took Jerusalem, and...
Jeremiah 12:10 Many H7227 rulers H7462 (H8802) destroyed H7843 (H8765) vineyard H3754 trodden H947 portion H2513
YHWH HAS FORSAKEN HIS HOUSE AND REJECTED HIS HERITAGE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT HAS BECOME, AND THEIR EVIL NEIGHBOURS WILL ALSO BE PUNISHED, BUT EVEN FOR THEM THERE WILL BE HOPE IN THE FUTURE IF THEY TURN TO...
CONTENTS: Message on the broken covenant, concluded. Jeremiah's complaint to God and God's rebuke. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: When we find it hard to understand God's providences toward w...
Jeremiah 12:4. _He shall not see our last end._ This is sadducean language, as Psalms 104:5. “The Lord will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard.” This species of atheism blunts the edge of t...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 12:10 SHEPHERDS HAVE DESTROYED MY VINEYARD. On God’s people as his vineyard, see note on Isa. 5:1. Judah’s leaders have misled God’s people, resulting in oppression and judgm...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. See on chap. 11, Bleek’s theory; for which there is a weight of argument. All commentators agree to connect Jeremiah 12:1 with the conclusi...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 12:1 Painfully exercised by the mysteries of the Divine government, the prophet opens his grief to Jehovah. Righteous art thou, etc.; rather, _Righteous wouldest thou be_,_ O Jeho...
Now Jeremiah goes on and he is talking now about the situation, the wicked man Jehoahaz that is in power. And he begins by saying, Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee (Jeremiah 12:1):...
Isaiah 43:28; Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 63:18; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 3:19;