Jeremiah 12:11

Jeremiah 12:11

9 My¹ heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture;
The vultures all around are against her.
Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,
^aBring them to devour!

10 “Many ^arulers have destroyed ^bMy vineyard,
They have ^ctrodden My portion underfoot;
They have made My¹ pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

11 They have made it ^adesolate;
Desolate, it mourns to Me;
The whole land is made desolate,
Because ^bno one takes it to heart.

12 The plunderers have come
On all the desolate heights in the wilderness,
For the sword of the Lord shall devour
From one end of the land to the other end of the land;
No flesh shall have peace.

13 ^aThey have¹ sown wheat but reaped thorns;
They have put themselves to pain but do not profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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They - Heb. He hath made it desolate: but it cannot be meant of God, for it is God that speaketh, and God is he mentioned in the next words; it must therefore either be understood of Nebuchadnezzar, the instrumental cause; or (one number being put for another) of the people or the rulers as the meritorious cause, and in that rueful state into which their sins had brought it, it cried onto God. Because - And one great cause of this sore judgment was, the peoples not seriously considering what God had done or was doing against it.

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