Yeremia 12:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Berapa lama lagi negeri ini menjadi kering, dan rumput di segenap padang menjadi layu? Karena kejahatan penduduknya binatang-binatang dan burung-burung habis lenyap, sebab mereka telah mengira: "Ia tidak akan melihat tingkah langkah kita!"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berapa lama lagi negeri ini menjadi kering, dan rumput di segenap padang menjadi layu? Karena kejahatan penduduknya binatang-binatang dan burung-burung habis lenyap, sebab mereka telah mengira: "Ia tidak akan melihat tingkah langkah kita!"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Berapa lama lagi tanah itu akan murung dan segala tumbuh-tumbuhan di padangpun menjadi layu oleh karena jahat segala orang penduduknya? Segala binatang dan unggaspun sudah lenyap, sedang kata mereka itu: Tiada dilihatnya kesudahan kami.

Contextual Overview

¹ O Lorde thou art more righteous, then that I shoulde dispute with thee: neuerthelesse, let me talke with thee in thynges reasonable. Howe happeneth it that the way of the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so well with them which without any shame offend and liue in wickednesse, ² Thou plantest them, they take roote, they growe, and bryng foorth fruite: they boast much of thee, yet art thou farre from their raynes. ³ But thou Lorde to whom I am well knowen, thou that hast sene and proued my heart, take them away, like as a flocke is caryed to the slaughter house, & appoynt them for the day of slaughter. ⁴ Howe long shall the lande mourne, and all the hearbes of the fielde perishe for the wickednesse of them that dwell therin? The cattell and the birdes are gone, yet say they, tushe, God wyll not destroy vs vtterly. ⁵ Seyng thou art weery in runnyng with the footmen, howe wilt thou then runne with horses? In a peaceable sure lande thou mayest be safe: but howe wylt thou do in the furious pride of Iordane? ⁶ For thy brethren and thy kinrede haue altogether dispised thee, and cryed out vpon thee altogether: Beleue them not, though they speake faire wordes to thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

long: Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 14:2, Jeremiah 23:10

the herbs: Psalms 107:34, Joel 1:10-17

the beasts: Jeremiah 4:25, Jeremiah 7:20, Hosea 4:3, Habakkuk 3:17, Romans 8:22

He: Jeremiah 5:13, Jeremiah 5:31, Psalms 50:21, Ezekiel 7:2-13

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:7 - General Genesis 7:21 - General Isaiah 24:4 - mourneth Jeremiah 4:26 - the fruitful Jeremiah 4:28 - the earth Jeremiah 12:11 - it mourneth Jeremiah 21:6 - I will Jeremiah 40:15 - wherefore Jeremiah 47:6 - how long Joel 1:18 - General Amos 1:2 - the habitations Amos 8:8 - every one Amos 9:5 - and all Zephaniah 1:3 - consume man Romans 8:20 - the creature

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
These are the generations of Tarah: Tarah begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran: Haron begat Lot.

Genesis 11:31
And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.

Hebrews 11:8
By fayth Abraham when he was called, obeyed, to go out into a place whiche he shoulde afterwarde receaue to inheritaunce: and he went out, not knowyng whyther he shoulde go.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How long shall the land mourn,.... The land of Judea, being desolate, and bringing forth no fruit, through the long drought that had been upon it:

and the herbs of every field wither; for want of rain to come upon it:

for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? this opens the cause, the reason of this dearth; it was the wickedness of the inhabitants of it: as the whole earth was originally cursed for the sins of men, so particular countries have had the marks of God's displeasure upon them, because of the sins of those that dwell in them. This clause, according to the accents, belongs to what follows, and may be read in connection with the next clause; either thus, "the herbs" of every field wither, I say, "because of the wickedness of the inhabitants of it, which consumes the beasts and the birds" x; that is, which wickedness is the cause not only of the withering of the grass and herbs, but of the consumption of birds and beasts: or else, by repeating the interrogation in the preceding clause,

how long shall the earth mourn, c.

how long, for the malice of them that dwell in it, are the beasts and the birds consumed y? the one having no grass to eat; and the other no fruit to pick, or seeds to live upon; the barrenness being so very great and general.

Because they said; the Jews, the inhabitants of the land, the wicked part of them, and which was the greater:

he shall not see our last end; either the Prophet Jeremiah, who had foretold it; but they did not believe him, that such would be their end, and that he should live to see it; or such was their atheism and infidelity, that they said God himself should not see it; and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions read, "God shall not see".

x So Gussetius, Ebr. Comment. p. 564. y Thus Schmidt, after Luther.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Hebrew divides this verse differently. “How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of the whole field wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein cattle and fowl have ceased to be: for he will not see, say they, our latter end.” The people mock the prophet, saying, In spite of all his threatenings we shall outlive him.

Jeremiah complained that at a time of great general misery powerful men throve upon the ruin of others: even the innocent cattle and fowl suffered with the rest. To him it seemed that all this might have been cured by some signal display of divine justice. If God, instead of dealing with men by general and slow-working laws, would tear (out some of the worst offenders from among the rest, the land might yet be saved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 12:4. How long shall the land mourn — These hypocrites and open sinners are a curse to the country; pull them out, Lord, that the land may be delivered of that which is the cause of its desolation.