Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 12:8
Judah 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 12:9
Rather, "Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird? Are the birds upon her round about? Come, assemble all the wild beasts: bring them to devour her." By "a speckled" or parti-colored "bird" is probably meant some kind of vulture.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 12:8:
Jeremiah 12:7-9
Zechariah 2:12
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