CONTINUATION OF THE SUBJECT AT THE CLOSE OF THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER. (Jer. 12:1-17) (Psa 51:4). let me talk, &c.--only let me reason the case with Thee: inquire of Thee the causes why such wicked men as these plotters ag…
1Justo eres tú, oh Jehová, para que yo dispute contigo; sin embargo, alegaré mi causa ante ti. ¿Por qué es prosperado el camino de los impíos, y tienen bien todos los que se portan deslealmente?
2Los plantaste, y echaron raíces; crecieron y dieron fruto; cercano estás tú en sus bocas, pero lejos de sus corazones.
3Pero tú, oh Jehová, me conoces; me viste, y probaste mi corazón para contigo; arrebátalos como a ovejas para el degolladero, y señálalos para el día de la matanza.
4¿Hasta cuándo estará desierta la tierra, y marchita la hierba de todo el campo? Por la maldad de los que en ella moran, faltaron los ganados y las aves; porque dijeron: No verá Dios nuestro fin.
5Si corriste con los de a pie, y te cansaron, ¿cómo contenderás con los caballos? Y si en la tierra de paz no estabas seguro, ¿cómo harás en la espesura del Jordán?
6Porque aun tus hermanos y la casa de tu padre, aun ellos se levantaron contra ti, aun ellos dieron grito en pos de ti. No los creas cuando bien te hablen.
7He dejado mi casa, desamparé mi heredad, he entregado lo que amaba mi alma en mano de sus enemigos.
8Mi heredad fue para mí como león en la selva; contra mí dio su rugido; por tanto, la aborrecí.
9¿Es mi heredad para mí como ave de rapiña de muchos colores? ¿No están contra ella aves de rapiña en derredor? Venid, reuníos, vosotras todas las fieras del campo, venid a devorarla.
10Muchos pastores han destruido mi viña, hollaron mi heredad, convirtieron en desierto y soledad mi heredad preciosa.
11Fue puesta en asolamiento, y lloró sobre mí desolada; fue asolada toda la tierra, porque no hubo hombre que reflexionase.
12Sobre todas las alturas del desierto vinieron destruidores; porque la espada de Jehová devorará desde un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro; no habrá paz para ninguna carne.
13Sembraron trigo, y segaron espinos; tuvieron la heredad, mas no aprovecharon nada; se avergonzarán de sus frutos, a causa de la ardiente ira de Jehová.
14Así dijo Jehová contra todos mis malos vecinos, que tocan la heredad que hice poseer a mi pueblo Israel: He aquí que yo los arrancaré de su tierra, y arrancaré de en medio de ellos a la casa de Judá.
15Y después que los haya arrancado, volveré y tendré misericordia de ellos, y los haré volver cada uno a su heredad y cada cual a su tierra.
16Y si cuidadosamente aprendieren los caminos de mi pueblo, para jurar en mi nombre, diciendo: Vive Jehová, así como enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal, ellos serán prosperados en medio de mi pueblo.
17Mas si no oyeren, arrancaré esa nación, sacándola de raíz y destruyéndola, dice Jehová.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. grow--literally "go on," "progress." Thou givest them sure dwellings and increasing prosperity.
grow--literally "go on," "progress." Thou givest them sure dwellings and increasing prosperity.
near in . . . mouth . . . far from . . . reins-- (Isa 29:13; Mat 15:8). Hypocrites.
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II. knowest me-- (Psa 139:1).
knowest me-- (Psa 139:1).
tried . . . heart-- (Jer 11:20).
toward thee--rather, "with Thee," that is, entirely devoted to Thee; contrasted with the hypocrites (Jer 12:2), "near in . . . mouth, and far from . . . reins." This being so, how is it that I fare so ill, they so well?
pull . . . out--containing the metaphor, from a "rooted tree" (Jer 12:2).
prepare--literally, "separate," or "set apart as devoted."
day of slaughter-- (Jam 5:5).
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III. land mourn--personification (Jer 14:2; Jer 23:10).
land mourn--personification (Jer 14:2; Jer 23:10).
for the wickedness-- (Psa 107:34).
beasts-- (Hos 4:3).
He shall not see our last end--Jehovah knows not what is about to happen to us (Jer 5:12) [ROSENMULLER]. So the Septuagint. (Psa 10:11; Eze 8:12; Eze 9:9). Rather, "The prophet (Jeremiah, to whom the whole context refers) shall not see our last end." We need not trouble ourselves about his boding predictions. We shall not be destroyed as he says (Jer 5:12-13).
IV
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IV. Jehovah's reply to Jeremiah's complaint.
Jehovah's reply to Jeremiah's complaint.
horses--that is, horsemen: the argument a fortiori. A proverbial phrase. The injuries done thee by the men of Anathoth ("the footmen") are small compared with those which the men of Jerusalem ("the horsemen") are about to inflict on thee. If the former weary thee out, how wilt thou contend with the king, the court, and the priests at Jerusalem?
wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee--English Version thus fills up the sentence with the italicized words, to answer to the parallel clause in the first sentence of the verse. The parallelism is, however, sufficiently retained with a less ellipsis: "If (it is only) in a land of peace thou art confident" [MAURER].
swelling of Jordan--In harvest-time and earlier (April and May) it overflows its banks (Jos 3:15), and fills the valley called the Ghor. Or, "the pride of Jordan," namely, its wooded banks abounding in lions and other wild beasts (Jer 49:19; Jer 50:44; Zac 11:3; compare Kg2 6:2). MAUNDRELL says that between the Sea of Tiberias and Lake Merom the banks are so wooded that the traveller cannot see the river at all without first passing through the woods. If in the campaign country (alone) thou art secure, how wilt thou do when thou fallest into the wooded haunts of wild beasts?
V
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V. even thy brethren--as in Christ's case (Psa 69:8; Joh 1:11; Joh 7:5; compare Jer 9:4; Jer 11:19, …
even thy brethren--as in Christ's case (Psa 69:8; Joh 1:11; Joh 7:5; compare Jer 9:4; Jer 11:19, Jer 11:21; Mat 10:36). Godly faithfulness is sure to provoke the ungodly, even of one's own family.
called a multitude after thee-- (Isa 31:4). JEROME translates, "cry after thee with a loud (literally, 'full') voice."
believe . . . not . . . though . . . speak fair-- (Pro 26:25).
VI
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VI. I have forsaken--Jehovah will forsake His temple and the people peculiarly His. The mention of Go…
I have forsaken--Jehovah will forsake His temple and the people peculiarly His. The mention of God's close tie to them, as heretofore His, aggravates their ingratitude, and shows that their past spiritual privileges will not prevent God from punishing them.
beloved of my soul--image from a wife (Jer 11:15; Isa 54:5).
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VII. is unto me--is become unto Me: behaves towards Me as a lion which roars against a man, so that he…
is unto me--is become unto Me: behaves towards Me as a lion which roars against a man, so that he withdraws from the place where he hears it: so I withdrew from My people, once beloved, but now an object of abhorrence because of their rebellious cries against Me.
VIII
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VIII. speckled bird--Many translate, "a ravenous beast, the hyena"; the corresponding Arabic word means…
speckled bird--Many translate, "a ravenous beast, the hyena"; the corresponding Arabic word means hyena; so the Septuagint. But the Hebrew always elsewhere means "a bird of prey." The Hebrew for "speckled" is from a root "to color"; answering to the Jewish blending together with paganism the altogether diverse Mosaic ritual. The neighboring nations, birds of prey like herself (for she had sinfully assimilated herself to them), were ready to pounce upon her.
assemble . . . beasts of . . . field--The Chaldeans are told to gather the surrounding heathen peoples as allies against Judah (Isa 56:9; Eze 34:5).
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IX. pastors--the Babylonian leaders (compare Jer 12:12; Jer 6:3).
pastors--the Babylonian leaders (compare Jer 12:12; Jer 6:3).
my vineyard-- (Isa 5:1, Isa 5:5).
trodden my portion-- (Isa 63:18).
X
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X. mourneth unto me--that is, before Me. EICHORN translates, "by reason of Me," because I have given…
mourneth unto me--that is, before Me. EICHORN translates, "by reason of Me," because I have given it to desolation (Jer 12:7).
because no man layeth it to heart--because none by repentance and prayer seek to deprecate God's wrath. Or, "yet none lays it to heart"; as in Jer 5:3 [CALVIN].
XI
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XI. high places--Before, He had threatened the plains; now, the hills.
high places--Before, He had threatened the plains; now, the hills.
wilderness--not an uninhabited desert, but high lands of pasturage, lying between Judea and Chaldea (Jer 4:11).
XII
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XII. Description in detail of the devastation of the land (Mic 6:15).
Description in detail of the devastation of the land (Mic 6:15).
they shall be ashamed of your--The change of persons, in passing from indirect to direct address, is frequent in the prophets. Equivalent to, "Ye shall be put to the shame of disappointment at the smallness of your produce."
XIII
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XIII. Prophecy as to the surrounding nations, the Syrians, Ammonites, &c., who helped forward Judah's c…
Prophecy as to the surrounding nations, the Syrians, Ammonites, &c., who helped forward Judah's calamity: they shall share her fall; and, on their conversion, they shall share with her in the future restoration. This is a brief anticipation of the predictions in the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth chapters.
touch-- (Zac 2:8).
pluck them out . . . pluck out . . . Judah--(Compare end of Jer 12:16). During the thirteen years that the Babylonians besieged Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar, after subduing Cœlo-Syria, brought Ammon, Moab, &c., and finally Egypt, into subjection [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 10:9.7]. On the restoration of these nations, they were to exchange places with the Jews. The latter were now in the midst of them, but on their restoration they were to be "in the midst of the Jews," that is, as proselytes to the true God (compare Mic 5:7; Zac 14:16). "Pluck them," namely, the Gentile nations: in a bad sense. "Pluck Judah": in a good sense; used to express the force which was needed to snatch Judah from the tyranny of those nations by whom they had been made captives, or to whom they had fled; otherwise they never would have let Judah go. Previously he had been forbidden to pray for the mass of the Jewish people. But here he speaks consolation to the elect remnant among them. Whatever the Jews might be, God keeps His covenant.
XIV
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XIV. A promise, applying to Judah, as well as to the nations specified (Amo 9:14). As to Moab, compare…
A promise, applying to Judah, as well as to the nations specified (Amo 9:14). As to Moab, compare Jer 48:47; as to Ammon, Jer 49:6.
XV
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XV. swear by my name-- (Jer 4:2; Isa 19:18; Isa 65:16); that is, confess solemnly the true God.
swear by my name-- (Jer 4:2; Isa 19:18; Isa 65:16); that is, confess solemnly the true God.
built--be made spiritually and temporally prosperous: fixed in sure habitations (compare Jer 24:6; Jer 42:10; Jer 45:4; Psa 87:4-5; Eph 2:20-21; Pe1 2:5).
16
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16. (Isa 60:12).
(Isa 60:12).
Many of these figurative acts being either not possible, or not probable, or decorous, seem to have existed only in the mind of the prophet as part of his inward vision. [So CALVIN]. The world he moved in was not the sensible, but the spiritual, world. Inward acts were, however, when it was possible and proper, materialized by outward performance but not always, and necessarily so. The internal act made a naked statement more impressive and presented the subject when extending over long portions of space and time more concentrated. The interruption of Jeremiah's official duty by a journey of more than two hundred miles twice is not likely to have literally taken place.
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Jeremiah — Capítulo 12
CONTINUATION OF THE SUBJECT AT THE CLOSE OF THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER. (Jer. 12:1-17) (Psa 51:4). let me talk, &c.--only let me reason the case with Thee: inquire of Thee the causes why such wicked men as these plotters ag…
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Justo eres tú, oh Jehová, para que yo dispute contigo; sin embargo, alegaré mi causa ante ti. ¿Por qué es prosperado el camino de los impíos, y tienen bien todos los que se portan deslealmente?
2Los plantaste, y echaron raíces; crecieron y dieron fruto; cercano estás tú en sus bocas, pero lejos de sus corazones.
3Pero tú, oh Jehová, me conoces; me viste, y probaste mi corazón para contigo; arrebátalos como a ovejas para el degolladero, y señálalos para el día de la matanza.
4¿Hasta cuándo estará desierta la tierra, y marchita la hierba de todo el campo? Por la maldad de los que en ella moran, faltaron los ganados y las aves; porque dijeron: No verá Dios nuestro fin.
5Si corriste con los de a pie, y te cansaron, ¿cómo contenderás con los caballos? Y si en la tierra de paz no estabas seguro, ¿cómo harás en la espesura del Jordán?
6Porque aun tus hermanos y la casa de tu padre, aun ellos se levantaron contra ti, aun ellos dieron grito en pos de ti. No los creas cuando bien te hablen.
7He dejado mi casa, desamparé mi heredad, he entregado lo que amaba mi alma en mano de sus enemigos.
8Mi heredad fue para mí como león en la selva; contra mí dio su rugido; por tanto, la aborrecí.
9¿Es mi heredad para mí como ave de rapiña de muchos colores? ¿No están contra ella aves de rapiña en derredor? Venid, reuníos, vosotras todas las fieras del campo, venid a devorarla.
10Muchos pastores han destruido mi viña, hollaron mi heredad, convirtieron en desierto y soledad mi heredad preciosa.
11Fue puesta en asolamiento, y lloró sobre mí desolada; fue asolada toda la tierra, porque no hubo hombre que reflexionase.
12Sobre todas las alturas del desierto vinieron destruidores; porque la espada de Jehová devorará desde un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro; no habrá paz para ninguna carne.
13Sembraron trigo, y segaron espinos; tuvieron la heredad, mas no aprovecharon nada; se avergonzarán de sus frutos, a causa de la ardiente ira de Jehová.
14Así dijo Jehová contra todos mis malos vecinos, que tocan la heredad que hice poseer a mi pueblo Israel: He aquí que yo los arrancaré de su tierra, y arrancaré de en medio de ellos a la casa de Judá.
15Y después que los haya arrancado, volveré y tendré misericordia de ellos, y los haré volver cada uno a su heredad y cada cual a su tierra.
16Y si cuidadosamente aprendieren los caminos de mi pueblo, para jurar en mi nombre, diciendo: Vive Jehová, así como enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal, ellos serán prosperados en medio de mi pueblo.
17Mas si no oyeren, arrancaré esa nación, sacándola de raíz y destruyéndola, dice Jehová.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
Versículo 2
I. grow--literally "go on," "progress." Thou givest them sure dwellings and increasing prosperity.
Versículo 3
II. knowest me-- (Psa 139:1).
Versículo 4
III. land mourn--personification (Jer 14:2; Jer 23:10).
Versículo 5
IV. Jehovah's reply to Jeremiah's complaint.
Versículo 6
V. even thy brethren--as in Christ's case (Psa 69:8; Joh 1:11; Joh 7:5; compare Jer 9:4; Jer 11:19, …
Versículo 7
VI. I have forsaken--Jehovah will forsake His temple and the people peculiarly His. The mention of Go…
Versículo 8
VII. is unto me--is become unto Me: behaves towards Me as a lion which roars against a man, so that he…
Versículo 9
VIII. speckled bird--Many translate, "a ravenous beast, the hyena"; the corresponding Arabic word means…
Versículo 10
IX. pastors--the Babylonian leaders (compare Jer 12:12; Jer 6:3).
Versículo 11
X. mourneth unto me--that is, before Me. EICHORN translates, "by reason of Me," because I have given…
Versículo 12
XI. high places--Before, He had threatened the plains; now, the hills.
Versículo 13
XII. Description in detail of the devastation of the land (Mic 6:15).
Versículo 14
XIII. Prophecy as to the surrounding nations, the Syrians, Ammonites, &c., who helped forward Judah's c…
Versículo 15
XIV. A promise, applying to Judah, as well as to the nations specified (Amo 9:14). As to Moab, compare…
Versículo 16
XV. swear by my name-- (Jer 4:2; Isa 19:18; Isa 65:16); that is, confess solemnly the true God.
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16. (Isa 60:12).