Jeremiah 12:5

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-6

YHWH Had Planted His People As A Green Olive Tree Abundant In Fruit, But Will Now Break Off Its Branches Returning Evil Consequences On Them For Their Evil Deeds. These Words Produce A Reaction Against Jeremiah In His Home Town Of Anathoth So That They Determine To Slay Him And Consequently He Asks YHWH Why He Allows The Wicked To Continue, Only To Learn That They Will Do Even More Wicked Things Than These (Jeremiah 11:16 to Jeremiah 12:6 ). The picture of Israel/Judah as a green olive tree... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-17

Section 4. YHWH Deprecates The Disloyalty Of His People To The Covenant, And Demonstrates From Examples Their Total Corruption, Revealing That As A Consequence Their Doom Is Irrevocably Determined, Something Then Represented By Jeremiah By Means Of Prophetic Symbolism (Jeremiah 11:1 to Jeremiah 13:27 ). Commencing with the regular opening phrase ‘The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH --’ (Jeremiah 11:1), YHWH deprecates His people’s disloyalty to the covenant, and demonstrates from... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:5-6

YHWH Responds With A Warning To Jeremiah That He Will Yet Face Worse Things Than This (Jeremiah 12:5-6 ). YHWH calls on Jeremiah to recognise that what he has endured up to now is as nothing compared with what lies ahead. Up until now he has only had to face the footmen (the local opposition or the lower level authorities), in the future he will have to face the horses (the higher powers that be, including the king, in Jerusalem). Up to now he has been comparatively at ease, shortly he must... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-6

Jeremiah 12:1-Joshua : . The Problem of Unrighteous Prosperity.— Jeremiah raises (for the first time in Hebrew literature) the problem of the prosperity of the unrighteous, apparently in connexion with his experiences at Anathoth. He ventures to complain (rather than “ plead” ) unto Yahweh, since He should award adversity to the evildoers who dishonour Him in their inner man (“ reins” , see on Jeremiah 11:20), and he appeals for their punishment. God answers Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 12:5) with... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 12:5

That these are the answer of God to the prophet is reasonably well agreed by the best interpreters, as also that this is a proverbial expression; but as to the application of it in this place, there is some difference. Some make it this: If thou dost not understand what is done by the men of thine own city, how canst thou think to fathom my dispensations of providence in the government of the world? But this sense seemeth not very probable, because the sense of the proverb seemeth to be, If... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 12:1-17

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 12:1-6 with the conclusion of the previous chapter. The following Jeremiah 12:7-17, fall into two strophes, 7–13, and 14–17. Hitzig and Graf regard Jeremiah 12:7-13 as a lament over Judah’s devastation consequent upon Jehoiakim’s defection from Nebuchadnezzar in the eighth year of his reign. And Eichborn, Dahler, and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:5

Jeremiah 12:5 The river Jordan was an eminent and appropriate type of death, as being the barrier which parted the wilderness of Israel's sojourn from the promised land of their assured inheritance. I. The reasonableness of the question in the text will be made manifest by pointing out certain circumstances which make death more appalling than any other calamity. (1) Death must be met alone. We are so constituted that in seasons of danger, difficulty, and alarm nothing is a more comfortable... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jeremiah 12:5

swelling of Jordan i.e. under such a test as in Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; Joshua 3:15; 1 Chronicles 12:15 read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Jeremiah 12:5

Preface For more than a century, Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons have been consistently recognized, and their usefulness and impact have continued to the present day, even in the outdated English of the author's own day. Why then should expositions already so successful and of such stature and proven usefulness require adaptation, revision, rewrite or even editing? The answer is obvious. To increase its usefulness to today's reader, the language in which it was originally written needs... read more

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-6

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:5-6

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:1-6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 12:5

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 12:1-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:5

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jeremiah 12:5

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Jeremiah 12:5

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