Jeremiah 12
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 12, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? {wherefore} are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}
Jeremiah 12:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou {art} near in their mouth, and far from their reins. {they grow: Heb. they go on}
Jeremiah 12:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. {toward...: Heb. with thee}
Jeremiah 12:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Jeremiah 12:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and {if} in the land of peace, {wherein} thou trustedst, {they wearied thee}, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. {they have called...: or, they cried after thee fully} {fair...: Heb. good things}
Jeremiah 12:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. {the dearly...: Heb. the love}
Jeremiah 12:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. {crieth...: or, yelleth: Heb. giveth out his voice}
Jeremiah 12:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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: or, taloned} {come to: or, cause them to come to}
Jeremiah 12:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {pleasant...: Heb. portion of desire}
Jeremiah 12:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 12:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the {one} end of the land even to the {other} end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
Jeremiah 12:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 shall: or, ye shall}
Jeremiah 12:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah 12:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Jeremiah 12:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
Jeremiah 12:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 12:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.