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Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

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ASV

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

KJV

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
רֹעִ֤יםro.'ImshepherdsH7462 →
רַבִּים֙ra.BimmanyH7227 →
שִֽׁחֲת֣וּshi.cha.Tuthey have ruinedH7843 →
כַרְמִ֔יkhar.Mivineyard myH3754 →
בֹּסְס֖וּbo.se.Suthey have trodden downH947 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
חֶלְקָתִ֑יchel.ka.Tiportion myH2513 →
נָֽתְנ֛וּna.te.Nuthey have madeH5414 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
חֶלְקַ֥תchel.Kat[the] portion ofH2513 →
חֶמְדָּתִ֖יchem.da.Tidesire myH2532 →
לְמִדְבַּ֥רle.mid.Barinto a wilderness ofH4057 →
שְׁמָמָֽה׃she.ma.MahdesolationH8077 →

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John 15:1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.Ezekiel 34:2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?Jeremiah 10:21For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.Psalms 80:8You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.Isaiah 63:18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.Isaiah 5:1–7I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.Jeremiah 23:1“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.Jeremiah 22:22The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.Psalms 80:8–16You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:Jeremiah 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.Luke 20:9–16Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.Jeremiah 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Luke 21:14So make up your mind not to worry beforehand how to defend yourselves.Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.Lamentations 1:10–11The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.Isaiah 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

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The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard — Rembrandt

On Jeremiah 12:10

The Vine & the Vineyard

The charge moves onto the men in charge. It is the shepherds who have trampled the vineyard, and this is where Matthew 21 will pick the thread up.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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