Jeremiah 12:10

Jeremiah 12:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• New International Version (NIV)Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Many rulers have destroyed My vineyard, They have trodden My portion underfoot; They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Context of Jeremiah 12:10

8My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has roared against Me; Therefore I have come to hate her. 9Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me? Are the birds of prey against her on every side? Go, gather all the animals of the field, Bring them to devour! Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness. 11It has been made a desolation; Desolate, it mourns before Me; The whole land has been made desolate, Because no one takes it to heart. 12On all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For the sword of the Lord is devouring From one end of the land even to the other; There is no peace for anyone.

Jeremiah 12:10 word by word

רֹעִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ כַרְמִ֔י בֹּסְס֖וּ אֶת־חֶלְקָתִ֑י נָֽתְנ֛וּ אֶת־חֶלְקַ֥ת חֶמְדָּתִ֖י לְמִדְבַּ֥ר שְׁמָמָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• Manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• shepherdsרָעָהrâ‛âh · to pastureH7462
• have ruinedשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• vineyardכֶּרֶםkerem · vineyardH3754
• trampledבּוּסbûs · to trampleH947
• My fieldחֶלְקָהchelqâh · portionH2513
• They have madeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• pleasantחֶמְדָּהchemdâh · desireH2532
• A desolateשְׁמָמָהshemâmâh shimâmâh · devastationH8077
• wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057

Cross-references for Jeremiah 12:10

• Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.
• Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.
• Jeremiah 39:3Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
• Psalms 80:8You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted it.
• Isaiah 5:1Let me sing now for my beloved A song of my beloved about His vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
• Luke 20:9But He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.
• Isaiah 43:28So I will profane the officials of the sanctuary, And I will turn Jacob over to destruction and Israel to abuse.
• Isaiah 63:18Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trampled it down.
• Lamentations 1:10The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they were not to enter Your congregation.
• Luke 21:14So make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves;
• Revelation 11:2Leave out the courtyard which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations; and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
• Jeremiah 3:19“Then I said, ‘How I would set you among My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father, And not turn away from following Me.’

Commentaries on Jeremiah 12:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Many 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Nebuchadnezzar 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.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 God's people had been the dearly-beloved of his soul, precious in his sight, but they acted so, that he gave them up to their enemies. Many professing churches become like speckled birds, presenting a mixture of religion and the world, with its vain fashions, pursuits, and pollutions. God's people are as men wondered at, as a speckled bird; but this people had by their own folly made themselves so; and the beasts and birds are called to prey…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10A vineyard commonly symbolizes God's people, as seen in passages like Isaiah 5:1–10, Matthew 21:33–45, and John 15:1–8.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. pastors--the Babylonian leaders (compare Jr 12:12; Jr 6:3). my vineyard--(Is 5:1, 5). trodden my portion--(Is 63:18).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings