Jeremiah 12:11
9 Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- KJV
- They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- WEB
- They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
- ASV
- They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- DARBY
- they have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourneth unto me: the whole land is made desolate, for no man layeth it to heart.
- BLB
- They have made her a desolation; she mourns before Me, desolate; all the land has been made desolate! But no man [is] setting [it] upon the heart.
- ÅB
- De gjør den til en ødemark; sørgende og øde ligger den omkring meg; ødelagt er hele landet; for det er ikke noen som legger det[^4] på hjerte.
- OTB
- Den er gjort til en ødemark, uttørket og øde foran meg; hele landet er lagt øde fordi ingen tar det til hjertet.
- B1930
- De gjør den til en ødemark; sørgende og øde ligger den omkring mig; ødelagt er hele landet; for det er ikke nogen som legger det på hjerte. / < Herrens ord.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 42:25
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:2
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:4–8
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
Read in contextZechariah 7:5
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
Read in contextLamentations 1:1–5
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
Read in contextIsaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
Read in contextJeremiah 10:25
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
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