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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 12:8

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest ,.... Which roars, and terrifies passengers from going that way; and which rends and tears in pieces all it meets with. This expresses the clamours of these people against God and his providences, and their rage, fierceness, and cruelty, against his prophets, sent in his name. It crieth out against me ; this is to be understood not of the cry of the oppressed through violence, for this is a cry to God, and not against him; or of idolaters... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:8

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion - The people are enraged against me; they roar like a furious lion against their God. They have proceeded to the most open acts of the most flagrant iniquity. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:8

Verse 8 God now shews the reason why he resolved to cast away the people; for it might appear at the first view very inconsistent, that God’s covenant, which he had made with Abraham and his seed, should become void. Hence he shews here that he was not too rigid in heavily punishing the Jews, and that he could not be accused of levity or inconstancy in rejecting or repudiating them. Mine heritage, he says, has become like a lion in the forest; that is, they have not only acted insolently... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-8

Leaving all for God. (Naegelsbach is of opinion that the words of Jeremiah 12:7-13 "are to be understood as having a double reference," i.e. both to the prophet's own feelings and to Jehovah's judgment. Zwingli and Bugenhagen consider that Jehovah begins to speak at "Go" or "Come," in Jeremiah 12:9 . There is evidently an intimate blending of the prophetic with the Divine consciousness throughout the whole passage.) A hard duty, but one often devolving upon faithful servants of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-11

The inheritance that has lost its charms. I. WE HAVE HERE REGRETFUL THOUGHTS OF THE PAST . We can see what the prophet once hoped and desired. Not only what he had hoped and desired in those dreams of youth before God had touched his heart and claimed the service of his lips, but also what he had hoped and desired since becoming a prophet. Dear as Anathoth with its inhabitants may have been before, it would become dearer still when he thought of impending calamities to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

The hiding of God's face. Here is a most terrible condition of things set forth. It may be taken as telling of the calamities which ensue when God hides his face from his people. It is terrible every way. Because— I. OF HIM BY WHOM HIS FACE IS HIDDEN . It is God. We feel such conduct from our fellow-men according to our estimate of the person who manifests it. Now, all these facts which make the hiding of his face grievous to us meet in God—righteousness, goodness,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-17

A separate prophecy. The key to it is in 2 Kings 24:1 , 2 Kings 24:2 , where it is related that, after Jehoiakim's rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar, "Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it." The prophecy falls into two strophes or sections, 2 Kings 24:7-13 and 2 Kings 24:14-17 . In the first we have a complaint of the desolation produced by the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:8

The reason why Jehovah has given up his people. Israel (or, more strictly, Judah) has proceeded to open hostility against his God . He is unto me —or rather, has become unto me— as a lion in the forest ; a familiar circumstance (comp. on Jeremiah 12:5 and Jeremiah 4:7 ). Therefore have I hated it . "To hate" is a strong expression for the withdrawal of love, shown by the giving up of Israel into the power of his enemies, as Malachi 1:3 (Keil). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 12:7-9

Yahweh shows that the downfall of the nation was occasioned by no want of love on His part, but by the nation’s conduct.Left - More correctly, cast away.Jeremiah 12:8Judah has not merely refused obedience, but become intractable and fierce, like an untamed lion. It has roared against God with open blasphemy. As His favor is life, so is His hatred death, i. e., Jerusalem’s punishment shall be as if inflicted by one that hated her.Jeremiah 12:9Rather, “Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird?... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 12:7-9

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