耶利米書 12:9-11 CUNPTS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

The people of the Jews are here marked for ruin. I. God is here brought in falling out with them and leaving them desolate; and they could never have been undone if they had not provoked God to desert them. It is a terrible word that God here says (Jer. 12:7): I have forsaken my house?the temple, which had been his palace; they had polluted it, and so forced him out of it: I have left my heritage, and will look after it no more. His people that he has taken such delight in, and care of, are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:9

Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird ,.... Or, "is not mine heritage unto me as a speckled bird?" F2 So V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Jarchi, and Kimchi. as a bird of various colours, delightful to look at, as the peacock, so Jerom interprets it here; it was so formerly, but not so now; or as a bird of various colours, and unusual, which other birds get about, look on, hate, and peck at. Some think this refers to the motley party coloured religion the Jews had embraced,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:10

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard ,.... This is a metaphor which is often used of the people of Israel and Judah; see Psalm 80:8 , the pastors that destroyed them are not their own governors, civil or religious, but Heathen princes, Nebuchadnezzar and his generals. So the Targum paraphrases it, "many kings slay my people;' so Kimchi and Ben Melech. They have trodden my portion under foot ; the people of the Jews, that were his portion, and before called his heritage; whom the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it desolate ,.... Which is repeated to denote the certainty of it; astonishment at it, and that it might be observed: and being desolate it mourneth unto me ; not the inhabitants of it for their sins, the cause of this desolation; but the land itself, because of the calamities upon it; it crying to God, in its way, for a restoration to its former beauty and glory. The whole land is made desolate ; it was not only the case of Jerusalem, and the parts adjacent, but even... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:9

Is unto me as a speckled bird - A bird of divers colors. This is a people who have corrupted the worship of the true God with heathenish rites and ceremonies; therefore, the different nations, (see Jeremiah 12:10 ; whose gods and forms of worship they have adopted shall come and spoil them. As far as you have followed the surrounding nations in their worship, so far shall they prevail over your state. Every one shall take that which is his own; and wherever he finds his own gods, he will... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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, Assyrians, Egyptians. and now the Chaldeans. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:11

No man layeth it to heart - Notwithstanding all these desolations, from which the land every where mourns, and which are so plainly the consequences of the people's crimes, no man layeth it to heart, or considereth that these are God's judgments; and that the only way to have them removed is to repent of their sins, and turn to God with all their hearts. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:9

Verse 9 The beginning of this verse is variously explained, Some think that a kind of bird is here meant, which has various colors, one variegated, which excites all other birds against itself; but this is without meaning. Others are of the opinion, and the greater part too, that birds tinged with blood were against his heritage. They hence thus explain the words, “Is a bird, tinged,” that is; with blood, “my heritage,” that is, about my heritage; “is there a bird around it? They consider both... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:10

Verse 10 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,” he doubtless meant the same as those of whom he now speaks; and yet he calls them pastors. But he touched the Jews to the quick, for they could not bear him to discharge the office of a pastor towards them. God ought to have been the pastor of his chosen people; but they were wild beasts.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:11

Verse 11 There is a change of number in the verb שם shem; but there is no obscurity: for the Prophet means, that the Jews would be exposed to the outrage of all, so that every one would plunder and lay waste the land. He does not then speak only of all their enemies or of the whole army; but he also declares that every one would be their master, so as to vex, scatter, devour, and wholly to destroy them at his pleasure: in short, he sets forth the atrocity of their punishment, — that the whole... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:11

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