Jeremiah 12:10

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷ I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance. I have given the beloved one of my heart into the hand of her enemies. ⁸ My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore I hate her. ⁹ The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me, the birds of prey are all around her. Go, gather all of the animals of the field, bring them to come and devour. ¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made my pleasant field like the desert of desolation. ¹¹ They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking it to heart. ¹² Upon all the barren heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of Yahweh devours, from one end of the land to the other end of the land, there is no peace for all flesh. ¹³ They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of the burning anger of Yahweh."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pastors: Jeremiah 6:3, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 39:3

my vineyard: Psalms 80:8-16, Isaiah 5:1-7, Luke 20:9-16

trodden: Isaiah 43:28, Isaiah 63:18, Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 1:11, Luke 21:14, Revelation 11:2

pleasant portion: Heb. portion of desire, Jeremiah 3:19

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:7 - the vineyard Jeremiah 2:8 - the pastors Jeremiah 9:10 - because Jeremiah 10:21 - the pastors Jeremiah 22:22 - thy pastors Jeremiah 23:1 - pastors Ezekiel 12:20 - General Ezekiel 34:2 - the shepherds Hosea 2:3 - as Zephaniah 1:13 - their goods John 15:1 - vine

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
And Yahweh said to Abram, "Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:2
And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you."

Genesis 12:4
And Abram went out as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

Genesis 12:8
And he moved on from there to the hill country, east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent at Bethel on the west, and at Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Yahweh. And he called on the name of Yahweh.

Genesis 12:18
Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Genesis 42:5
Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those other people who went as well, for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:1
Now the famine in the land was severe.

Genesis 47:13
Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine.

Ruth 1:1
And it happened in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went to reside in the countryside of Moab—he and his wife and his two sons.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard,.... This is a metaphor which is often used of the people of Israel and Judah; see

Psalms 80:8, the pastors that destroyed them are not their own governors, civil or religious, but Heathen princes, Nebuchadnezzar and his generals. So the Targum paraphrases it,

"many kings slay my people;''

so Kimchi and Ben Melech.

They have trodden my portion under foot; the people of the Jews, that were his portion, and before called his heritage; whom the Chaldeans subdued, and reduced to extreme servitude and bondage; and were as the dirt under their feet, greatly oppressed and despised.

They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness; by pulling down stately edifices, unwalling of towers, and destroying men; so that there were none to manure the fields, to dress the vineyards, and keep gardens and orchards in good case; but all were come to ruin and what before was a delightful paradise was now like an heath or desert.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nebuchadnezzar and his confederate kings trampled Judah under foot, as heedless of the ruin they were inflicting as the shepherds would be who led their flocks to browse in spring upon the tender shoots of the vine.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 12:10. Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard — My people have had many kinds of enemies which have fed upon their richest pastures; the Philistines, the Moabites, Ammonites, Assyrians, Egyptians. and now the Chaldeans.