Jeremiah 12:5 - Exposition

Jeremiah's impatience corrected. The expressions are evidently proverbial. The opposition to the prophet will reach a still higher pitch; and if he is so soon discouraged, how will he bear his impending trials? And if in the land of peace , etc.? a second figure, the translation of which needs amending. If ( only ) in a land of peace thou art confident , how wilt thou do in the pride of Jordan? The "pride of Jordan" means the thickets on its banks, which were notorious as the haunts of lions ( Jeremiah 49:19 ; Jeremiah 50:44 ; Zechariah 11:3 ). " Lions' bones have been found by Dr. Roth in the gravel of the Jordan. Lions are seldom or never found now west of the Euphrates, although they occasionally cross the river" (Revelation W. Houghton, 'Bible Educator,' 1.22).