Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 12:9
The birds round about — It is usual for other birds to flock about a strange coloured bird, such as they have not been used to see.
The birds round about — It is usual for other birds to flock about a strange coloured bird, such as they have not been used to see.
Verse Jeremiah 12:9. Is _UNTO ME_ AS _A SPECKLED BIRD_] A bird of _divers_ _colours_. This is a people who have corrupted the worship of the true God with heathenish rites and ceremonies; therefore,...
Yahweh shows that the downfall of the nation was occasioned by no want of love on His part, but by the nation’s conduct. LEFT - More correctly, cast away. Jeremiah 12:8 Judah has not merely refused...
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...
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....
SPECKLED BIRD. a bird of prey....
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...
_bird of prey? are the birds of prey, etc_.] The change of one consonant (reading _ki_for _li_) would enable us to unite the two questions into one, and read (without "unto me") _bird of prey, that th...
MINE HERITAGE, &C.— Bochart and the LXX. read _Mine heritage is unto me as the ravenous hyena; the ravenous beasts are round about it._ The context seems indisputably to prove the propriety of this in...
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...
Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. SPECKLED BIRD - [ ha`ayiT (H5861) tsaabuwa` (H6641...
12:9 prey; (c-11) According to others 'as a greedy hyena.'...
1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....
The figures to represent the coming desolation are, first, that of birds assembling round one of their own kind and maltreating it, because its plumage attracts their attention as unusual, and then th...
MINE HERITAGE IS UNTO ME AS A SPECKLED BIRD. — The Hebrew is interrogative, _Is mine heritage..._? _Are the birds come round about against her?_ The word for “bird” in both cases means a “bird of prey...
הַ עַ֨יִט צָב֤וּעַ נַחֲלָתִי֙ לִ֔י הַ עַ֖יִט
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...
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...
My heritage [is] to me [as] a (i) speckled bird, the birds around [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. (i) Instead of bearing my livery and wearing only m...
_As a. Septuagint, "a den of the hyena:" Alexandrian, "robbers." Grabe inserts, "or a den around it?" (Haydock) --- They have read auss, "a den," instead of hait, "a bird." Bochart, (iii. 11.) however...
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...
The beginning of this verse is variously explained, Some think that a kind of bird is here meant, which has various colors, one variegated, which excites all other birds against itself; but this is wi...
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...
MINE HERITAGE IS UNTO ME AS A SPECKLED BIRD,.... Or, "is not mine heritage unto me as a speckled bird?" b as a bird of various colours, delightful to look at, as the peacock, so Jerom interprets it he...
Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. Ver. 9. _Mine heritage is unto me as a speckle...
_My heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest_ Those that were my lambs and sheep, following me, their chief shepherd, and the guidance of those prophets and pastors whom I set over them, are become...
Mine heritage is unto Me as a speckled bird, a bird of prey with its plumage striped brown and gray, or an albino; THE BIRDS ROUND ABOUT ARE AGAINST HER, pouncing upon such a bird in either case with...
ISRAEL SPOILED BY THE ENEMIES...
SPECKLED: Or, taloned COME TO DEVOUR: Or, cause them to come...
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...
MINE HERITAGE IS UNTO ME AS A SPECKLED BIRD: the word in the Hebrew signifies to dye, or colour, and interpreters are here divided, whether to interpret it of a bird _coloured by nature_ (so our trans...
Jeremiah 12:9 heritage H5159 speckled H6641 vulture H5861 vultures H5861 around H5439 Come H3212 (H8798) assemble H622
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...
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...
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...
_Mine heritage is unto Me as a speckled bird._ A SPECKLED BIRD Mine (God’s) heritage is unto Me as a speckled bird. As an owl, say some, that loveth not the light; as a peacock, say others, as oft ch...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 12:9 The hyena and BIRDS represent Babylon, the enemy who stalks Judah. ⇐...
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...
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...
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):...
2 Kings 24:2; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:22;...