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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 12:12

Through - in. Even these remote scaurs do not escape, polluted as they had been by the nation’s idolatries.

Shall devour - Or, devoureth. These hosts of war come as Yahweh’s sword.

No flesh shall have peace - “Flesh” in Genesis 6:3 means mankind as sinners; here, Judah. “Peace” in Hebrew has the wider signification of “welfare, happiness.” Hence, their salutation in life was, “Peace be to thee,” and in death “In Peace” was engraved upon their sepulchres.

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See also Jeremiah 12:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 12:12. _THE SWORD OF THE LORD SHALL DEVOUR_] It is the sword of the Lord that has devoured, and will devour: this is what no man layeth to heart. They think these things come in the cou...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIGH. eminent....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _bare heights_ See on ch. Jeremiah 3:2....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HIGH PLACES THROUGH] RV 'the bare heights in': no spot shall escape....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALL HIGH PLACES. — _i.e._, the bare treeless heights so often chosen as the site of an idolatrous sanctuary. THE SWORD OF THE LORD. — As in the cry of “the sword of Jehovah and of Gideon” (Judges 7:18...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַֽל ־כָּל ־שְׁפָיִ֣ם בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֗ר בָּ֚אוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah here proceeds farther — that no corner of the land would be exempt from the attacks of enemies. Desert is not put here for solitude not inhabited, but for high places; and as such places fbr...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE SPOILERS ARE COME UPON ALL HIGH PLACES THROUGH THE WILDERNESS,.... Of Judea; or which lay between Chaldea and Judea, through which the Chaldean army came; called here the "spoilers", because they...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no flesh shall have peace....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The spoilers_ The Chaldean soldiers, described by the metaphor of _a full wind_ of the high places, Jeremiah 4:11, _are come upon all high places_ Have made themselves masters of all the natural fast...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness, appearing on the heights of the steppes throughout the land; FOR THE SWORD OF THE LORD, the war which the Lord would send upon Judah...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL SPOILED BY THE ENEMIES...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The prophet (as very usually) speaketh of a thing as already done which was very shortly to be done; he saith they were come up because they should come up, and no places should be so high but they sh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 12:12 plunderers H7703 (H8802) come H935 (H8804) heights H8205 wilderness H4057 sword H2719 LORD H3068

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 12:12 SWORD OF THE LORD. Babylon is simply God’s instrument for punishing Judah. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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):...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 9:4; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 5:2; Isaiah 34:6; Isaiah 57:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Are come — The prophet, as usual, speaks of a thing as already done, which was very shortly to be done. No flesh — No rank or order of men....

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