Jeremiah 12:10 NIV

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 12:10

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

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

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

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 12:10

Another simpler and more natural image, expressing the same idea, as these in Jeremiah 12:9 . The favorite way of representing Jehovah's relation to his people is that of a vine-proprietor to his vineyard (see on Jeremiah 2:21 ). How would a vineyard be ruined if a band of shepherds were to drive their flocks among the tender vine-shoots! The many pastors (or, shepherds ) are clearly Nebuchadnezzar and his generals (comp. Jeremiah 6:3 ). My pleasant portion . Jehovah is the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:10

Shepherds where they ought not to be. The words of this verse suggest a degradation of the vineyard, which may have been accomplished in one of two ways. The prophet may have been indicating the miseries of his country by a scene from real life, a literal spoiling of a vineyard by the literal flocks of careless or unscrupulous shepherds. Either a vineyard becomes neglected by its owner, and so lays itself open to the inroads of a roaming flock, or the shepherd comes, and, regardless of all... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 12:10

Nebuchadnezzar and his confederate kings trampled Judah under foot, as heedless of the ruin they were inflicting as the shepherds would be who led their flocks to browse in spring upon the tender shoots of the vine. read more

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

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

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

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

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 12:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 12:10

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