Jeremiah 12:2 ESV

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:1-17

CHAPTER VIITHE BROKEN COVENANTJeremiah 11:1-23 and Jeremiah 12:1-17THERE is no visible break between these two chapters. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet’s career. At the same time, the style is so peculiar that it is not so easy as it might appear at a first glance to determine exactly what it is that the section has to tell us. When we come to take a closer look at it, we find a thoroughly characteristic mixture of direct narrative and soliloquy, of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-17

CHAPTER 12 The Prophet’s Prayer and the House Forsaken, Yet Compassion 1. The prophet’s prayer (Jeremiah 12:1-6 ) 2. The house forsaken, yet compassion (Jeremiah 12:7-17 ) Jeremiah 12:1-6 . In his outburst of grief and in great mental perplexity Jeremiah states the old question, why does the righteous man suffer, why does the wicked prosper? And then the prayer for His intervention. Such will be again the case with the godly remnant in the end of this present age. They will suffer and be... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 12:2

12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their {c} reins.(c) They profess God in mouth, but deny him in heart, which is here meant by the reins, Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15:8 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:1-17

PERSECUTED IN HIS HOME TOWN The length of this lesson may alarm, but preparation for it only requires the reading of the chapters two or three times. One who has gone through Isaiah will soon catch the drift of the Spirit’s teaching and be able to break up the chapters into separate discourses and the discourses into their various themes. The main object of the lesson is to dwell on the prophet’s personal experience in his home town which is reached in the closing chapters. It is thought... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 12:1-3

If the Reader will turn to Psalms 73:0 , and remark the complaints of Asaph, on the same subject, he will find the best comment to what Jeremiah here speaks of in his experience. He will find also the best remedy to it, and which God the Holy Ghost teacheth, in the close of that Psalm. So much indeed is there said on it, and so truly blessed, and unanswerably conclusive, that nothing more can be required. I only pray the Reader to remark with me, that Jeremiah like Asaph, begins his... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:2

Reins. They have thy name in their mouth, but not in their heart, Isaias xxix. 13., and Matthew xv. 8. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-6

1-6 When we are most in the dark concerning God's dispensations, we must keep up right thoughts of God, believing that he never did the least wrong to any of his creatures. When we find it hard to understand any of his dealings with us, or others, we must look to general truths as our first principles, and abide by them: the Lord is righteous. The God with whom we have to do, knows how our hearts are toward him. He knows both the guile of the hypocrite and the sincerity of the upright. Divine... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jeremiah 12:1-6

The Conspiracy in the Prophet's own Family v. 1. Righteous art Thou, O Lord, maintaining justice, when I plead with Thee, when he brings his case to the Lord's attention; yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments, reasoning with Jehovah concerning a matter which seems incompatible with divine righteousness: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Why is it that they seem to be fortunate in all their dealings? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? How may the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jeremiah 12:1-17

5. THIRD STAGE OF THE CONSPIRACY: THE PLOT IN THE PROPHET’S OWN FAMILYJeremiah 12:1-61 Thou maintainest justice, O Jehovah, when I plead with thee.Only on matters of judgment will I speak with thee.Why is the way of the wicked prosperous?Why do all live in peace, who practise knavery?2 Thou hast planted them and they have taken root;They grow up, they also bear fruit:Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me,Regard me and prove my... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-17

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 a plot against his life. He appealed to the Lord, and was told by the declaration of His knowledge of the plot, and of the fact that the severest punishments would be meted out to these men. The prophet then poured out his soul in questions to God. Why is it, he asked, that the wicked prosper?... read more