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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 12:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 12:10 |
King James |
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
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). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A wilderness - They have caused God to turn the country which he had chosen for his portion, into a wilderness. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.