Jeremiah 12:12

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

spoilers: Jeremiah 4:11-15, Jeremiah 9:19-21

the sword: Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 34:17, Jeremiah 47:6, Jeremiah 48:2, Leviticus 26:33, Isaiah 34:6, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:16, Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 14:17, Amos 9:4, Zephaniah 2:12, Revelation 19:16-21

no: Isaiah 57:21, Matthew 24:21, Matthew 24:22, Revelation 6:4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:29 - the sword 2 Samuel 2:26 - sword 1 Chronicles 21:12 - the sword Jeremiah 6:26 - for the Jeremiah 17:3 - and thy Jeremiah 20:5 - I will deliver Jeremiah 25:27 - because Jeremiah 46:14 - the sword Ezekiel 7:14 - for Ezekiel 7:24 - I will bring Ezekiel 21:9 - A sword Ezekiel 33:2 - When I bring the sword upon a land

Cross-References

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 12:10
And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife.

Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking "the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful."

1 Samuel 27:1
Then David thought to himself, "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but that I must certainly escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand."

Proverbs 29:25
The fear of a person will lay a snare, but he who trusts in Yahweh will be secure.

Matthew 10:28
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness,.... Of Judea; or which lay between Chaldea and Judea, through which the Chaldean army came; called here the "spoilers", because they spoiled and plundered all places where they came; nor could the high, strong, and fortified places withstand them, or escape their ravage and fury. De Dieu renders it, "upon all the plains in the wilderness"; where was pasture, land for cattle, as Kimchi serves; which were trodden down and spoiled by the soldiers, and made forage of.

For the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end; of the land even the other end of the land; the sword of the Chaldeans is called the sword of the Lord, because it was drawn by his order and appointment, and was succeeded by him to do execution; and the calamity which it brought upon the land reached from one end of it to the other, so general and; extensive it was.

No flesh shall have peace; no inhabitant of Judea shall be in safety, but be exposed to the sword, or to captivity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Through - in. Even these remote scaurs do not escape, polluted as they had been by the nation’s idolatries.

Shall devour - Or, devoureth. These hosts of war come as Yahweh’s sword.

No flesh shall have peace - “Flesh” in Genesis 6:3 means mankind as sinners; here, Judah. “Peace” in Hebrew has the wider signification of “welfare, happiness.” Hence, their salutation in life was, “Peace be to thee,” and in death “In Peace” was engraved upon their sepulchres.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 12:12. The sword of the Lord shall devour — It is the sword of the Lord that has devoured, and will devour: this is what no man layeth to heart. They think these things come in the course of events.