Jeremiah 12:9

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7 “I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;
It cries out against Me;
Therefore I have ^ahated it.

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.”

14 Thus says the Lord: “Against all My evil neighbors who ^atouch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will ^bpluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Jeremiah 12:7-9

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 12:9:**

Job 28:7
Psalms 33:12
Isaiah 46:11
Isaiah 56:9
Jeremiah 12:7-9
Zechariah 2:12
Revelation 19:17

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