Jeremiah Chapter 12

Jeremiah complaint of the prosperity of the wicked

12:1 You [are] righteous, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: You are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
12:3 But You, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, know me: you have seen me, and tried my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that live in it? the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
12:5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, in it you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?
12:6 Because even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they have called a multitude after you: don’t believe them, though they speak fair words to you.

God laments the desolation of his inheritance

12:7 I have forsaken My house, I have left My inheritance; I have given the dearly beloved of My soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî feminine noun Meaning: My soul, My self, My life, My creature, My person, My appetite, My mind, My living being, My desire, My emotion, My passion For more info click here to the hand of her enemies.
12:8 My inheritance is to me like a lion in the forest; it cries out against me: therefore have I hated it.
12:9 My inheritance is to me like a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; y’all come, assemble all the animals of the field, come to devour.
12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wildernessלְמִדְבַּר
Transliteration: lᵊmiḏbar in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here.
12:11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
12:12 The spoilers have come on all high places in the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: bammiḏbār in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): — in/though the desert, in/though the south, in/though the speech, in/though the wilderness. For more info click here: for the sword of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here shall devour from the one end of the land to the other: no flesh shall have peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, wholeness, prosperity For more info click here
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 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.

Promises to the repentant

12:14 So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here against all My evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here to inherit; Look, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea For more info click here from among them.
12:15 And it will so happen, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, each man to his inheritance, and each man to his land.
12:16 And it will so happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here lives; like they taught My people to swear by Baalבַּעַל
baʿal) (/ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑː.əl/), or Baʽal a fertility god whose cult was widespread in ancient Phoenician and Canaanite lands. For more info click here ; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
12:17 But if they will not obey, I will completely pluck up and destroy that nationהַגּוֹי‎
Transliteration: hagôy – masculine noun, proper masculine noun (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: — the/that Gentile, the/that heathen, the/that nation, the/that people. For more info click here, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.