Jeremiah 12

Jeremiah 12:1

CONTENTS This Chapter contains the humble application to the Lord, in beholding the prosperity of the wicked. Towards the close of the Chapter we have some sweet promises of God to his people.... [ Continue Reading ]

Jeremiah 12:1-3

If the Reader will turn to Psalms 73:1, and remark the complaints of Asaph, on the same subject, he will find the best comment to what Jeremiah here speaks of in his experience. He will find also the best remedy to it, and which God the Holy Ghost teacheth, in the close of that Psalm. So much indeed... [ Continue Reading ]

Jeremiah 12:4-6

I venture to look far beyond Jeremiah and all his personal troubles, in what is here said. Who indeed, but must eye Jesus, in what is here said of his brethren. John 7:3. And with respect to Jesus, what were the swellings of Jordan, and the contention of horses, compared to the billows of divine wra... [ Continue Reading ]

Jeremiah 12:7-13

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 somewhat infinitely higher, and more interesting is intended from it. May we not suppose, that it is the la... [ Continue Reading ]

Jeremiah 12:14-17

I detain not the Reader, with multiplying observations on these verses, the tenor of which is so uniformly discoverable through all the Bible. But I beg of him, to remark with me, how gracious the Lord's promises of salvation are interspersed, in this, as in all other passages of a like nature. We h... [ Continue Reading ]

Jeremiah 12:17

REFLECTIONS READER let us learn from this chapter to form one sure and unerring maxim, concerning the providences of God, that however puzzling and unaccountable to us they may appear, the issue of them must invariably be, for the divine glory, and for the welfare of his people. Behold in this poin... [ Continue Reading ]