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Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns - description in detail of the devastation of the land ().

They shall be ashamed of your revenues. 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.'

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See also Jeremiah 12:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 12:13. _THEY HAVE SOWN WHEAT, BUT SHALL REAP THORNS_] All their projects shall fail: none of their enterprises shall succeed. They are enemies to God, and therefore cannot have his bles...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SHALL REAP ... SHALL NOT PROFIT - Rather, have reaped ... have profited nothing. The force of the proverb is that all their labors had ended only in disappointment. AND THEY SHALL BE ASHAMED OF YOUR...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 12 The Prophet's Prayer and the House Forsaken, Yet Compassion _ 1. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 12:1) 2. The house forsaken, yet compassion (Jeremiah 12:7) _ Jeremiah 12:1. In his outburs...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH BY HER NEIGHBOURS, AND THEIR FUTURE. This isolated prophecy is most naturally referred to the events of 2 Kings 24:1 f., when Jehoiakim had revolted against Nebuchadrezzar (_c....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BUT. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "but" in the text. REVENUES. produce....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _v_., at least in its present context, is obscure. The subject is either (_a_) the spoilers, whose disasters, however, belong not to this but to the following paragraph, or (_b_) Judah, in which c...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 12:7-17. Devastation of Judah to be wrought by hostile neighbours, who shall be punished by exile unless they submit to the God of Israel Jehovah in pathetic language deplores the necessity...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IV. THE PAIN OF GOD Jeremiah 12:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) I have forsaken My house, I have left My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies. (8) My inheritance has be...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND THEY SHALL BE ASHAMED] RV 'And ye shall,' etc. REVENUES] RV 'fruits.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT SHALL REAP THORNS. — Better, _have reaped thorns;_ and so in the next clause _they have profited nothing._ This which is truer to the Hebrew is also truer to the Prophet’s meaning. The sentence of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    זָרְע֤וּ חִטִּים֙ וְ קֹצִ֣ים קָצָ֔רוּ נֶחְל֖וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Now we hear the prophet as he appealed to Jehovah to be his Defender, and. finally, we hear the divine determination. concerning his evil neighbors. This peril was revealed to him by Jehovah. It was...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (m) They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they (n) have put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of (o) your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fruits. They shall not satisfy your expectations or wants._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I hope that I do not use any violence to this passage, neither strain the holy scripture, when I say, that after everything which may be said, in allusion here to Israel, I venture to consider somewha...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Most interpreters understand this of the prophets, that they had been disappointed, after having faithfully cultivated the field of God and sown good seed, that thorns only had sprung up, and briars o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the call to o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY HAVE SOWN WHEAT, BUT SHALL REAP THORNS,.... Which may be understood literally, the land of Judea being cursed for their sins, and become barren and unfruitful, as the earth originally was for the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD. Ver. 13. _Th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The spoilers_ The Chaldean soldiers, described by the metaphor of _a full wind_ of the high places, Jeremiah 4:11, _are come upon all high places_ Have made themselves masters of all the natural fast...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL SPOILED BY THE ENEMIES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They, the people of Judah, HAVE SOWN WHEAT, they have undertaken many things in the pride of their hearts, BUT SHALL REAP THORNS, the very opposite of what they expected; THEY HAVE PUT THEMSELVES TO P...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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, presen...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY HAVE SOWN WHEAT, BUT SHALL REAP THORNS: if these words be understood literally, they only signify that God would blast the labours of the husbandman, and curse them in the field. The earth's brin...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 12:13 sown H2232 (H8804) wheat H2406 reaped H7114 (H8804) thorns H6975 pain H2470 (H8738) profit...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH HAS FORSAKEN HIS HOUSE AND REJECTED HIS HERITAGE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT HAS BECOME, AND THEIR EVIL NEIGHBOURS WILL ALSO BE PUNISHED, BUT EVEN FOR THEM THERE WILL BE HOPE IN THE FUTURE IF THEY TURN TO...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message on the broken covenant, concluded. Jeremiah's complaint to God and God's rebuke. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: When we find it hard to understand God's providences toward w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 12:4. _He shall not see our last end._ This is sadducean language, as Psalms 104:5. “The Lord will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard.” This species of atheism blunts the edge of t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. See on chap. 11, Bleek’s theory; for which there is a weight of argument. All commentators agree to connect Jeremiah 12:1 with the conclusi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 12:1 Painfully exercised by the mysteries of the Divine government, the prophet opens his grief to Jehovah. Righteous art thou, etc.; rather, _Righteous wouldest thou be_,_ O Jeho...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jeremiah goes on and he is talking now about the situation, the wicked man Jehoahaz that is in power. And he begins by saying, Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee (Jeremiah 12:1):...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:38; Habakkuk 2:13; Haggai 1:6; Haggai 2:16; Haggai 2:17

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shall not profit — All the works of their hands, all their counsels and deliberations should be of no profit unto them. Because — The fierce anger of God shall be so shewed, that the returns of their...

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