Jeremiah 12:4 - Exposition

How long , etc.? The verse is decided rather differently by the Hebrew accents. The question should end at wither , and the following words run on. Every field should be the whole field ( i.e. open country). The connection has caused some difficulty. But drought is constantly described as a judgment ( Jeremiah 3:3 ; Jeremiah 5:24 , Jeremiah 5:25 ; Jeremiah 14:2-7 ; Jeremiah 23:10 ), and it is a prophetic doctrine that the lower animals suffer for the fault of man. Because they said ; rather, because they say . The speakers are the ungodly. The subject of the following verb is uncertain. Some think it is God; but when God is said to "see" ( i.e. take notice of) anything, it is always something actually existing. The subject must, therefore, be the prophet, of whom the ungodly scoffingly declare, He shall not see our last end, because his predictions are mere delusions.