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 became to Me like a lion in the forest— her voice roared against Me! Therefore I despised her. 9Is My inheritance a speckled vulture? Are vultures circling all around her? Go, gather all the wild beasts, bring them for devouring! “Many shepherds ruined My vineyard. They trampled My property. They made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11They made it a wasteland. It mourns before Me, desolate. The whole land will be laid waste, because no one takes it to heart.” 12On all the bare hills in the wilderness destroyers have come. For the sword of Adonai is devouring from the one end of the land to the other end of the land. No flesh has shalom.

Jeremiah 12:10 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• pastorsרָעָהrâ‛âh · to pastureH7462
• have destroyedשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• my vineyardכֶּרֶםkerem · vineyardH3754
• they have troddenבּוּסbûs · to trampleH947
• my portionחֶלְקָהchelqâh · portionH2513
• they have madeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• my pleasantחֶמְדָּהchemdâh · desireH2532
• a desolateשְׁמָמָהshemâmâh shimâmâh · devastationH8077
• wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057

Cross-references for Jeremiah 12:10

• Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds with their flocks are coming against her. All around her they pitch their tents, each pasturing in his own place.
• Jeremiah 25:9I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.
• Jeremiah 39:3Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sarezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sarezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of Babylon’s king.
• Psalms 80:8Elohei-Tzva’ot, restore us, and make Your face shine, and we will be saved.
• Isaiah 5:1Let me sing of my beloved, a song of my beloved, about His vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard in a very fertile hill.
• Luke 20:9Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.
• Isaiah 43:28So I profaned the Sanctuary officials, and gave Jacob over to destruction, and Israel to scorn.
• Isaiah 63:18Briefly Your holy people possessed it— our foes have trampled Your Sanctuary.
• Lamentations 1:10The enemy has stretched his hand over all her treasures. She even saw nations enter her sanctuary— those You had commanded not to enter Your congregation.
• Luke 21:14So make up your minds not to prepare ahead of time to defend yourselves—
• Revelation 11:2But do not measure the court outside the Temple—leave it out, because it has been given to the nations, and they shall trample the holy city for forty-two months.
• Jeremiah 3:19“Then I Myself said: ‘How gladly would I make you sons and give you a pleasant land— the most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ I thought you would call Me—Avi!— and would not turn 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