Jeremiah 12:9

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 12:9

12:9 My heritage [is] to me [as] a {i} speckled bird, the birds around [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.(i) Instead of bearing my livery and wearing only my colours, they have change and diversity of colours of their idols and superstitions therefore their enemies as thick as the fowls of the air will come about them to destroy them. 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 12:7-13

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 somewhat infinitely higher, and more interesting is intended from it. May we not suppose, that it is the language of God the Father in respect to his dear Son given up into the hands of wicked men, for the purposes of redemption? At all events we know, that the Lord so speaketh, concerning Christ. Isaiah... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:9

As a. Septuagint, "a den of the hyena:" Alexandrian, "robbers." Grabe inserts, "or a den around it?" (Haydock) --- They have read auss, "a den," instead of hait, "a bird." Bochart, (iii. 11.) however, shews that the latter word denotes various wild beasts, and nearly follows the Septuagint. Though the inheritance be most charming, it shall not pass unpunished. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:7-13

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, presenting a mixture of religion and the world, with its vain fashions, pursuits, and pollutions. God's people are as men wondered at, as a speckled bird; but this people had by their own folly made themselves so; and the beasts and birds are called to prey upon them. The whole land would be made... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jeremiah 12:7-13

Israel Spoiled by the Enemies v. 7. I have forsaken Mine house, so the Lord tells His prophet, I have left Mine heritage, repudiating His chosen people, in the midst of whom He had established, and hoped to maintain, His Church; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies, this being said of the exile with which He intended to punish His disobedient people. v. 8. Mine heritage is unto Me as a lion in the forest, presuming to rise up against Him like a beast of... 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