Jeremiah 12:17 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 12:17

But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

BSB

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ASV

But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah.

KJV

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

But if they will not obey,.... Or "hear" (k); the word of the Lord, and hearken to the ministers of the Gospel, and be subject to the ordinances of it; or as the Targum, "will not receive instruction:'' I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the Lord: root it up from being a nation, strip it of all its privileges and enjoyments, and destroy it with an everlasting destruction; see Zec 14:16. (k) ישמעו "audierint", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "audient", Cocceius.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I will - destroy that nation - Several of them did not obey, and are destroyed. Of the Moabites, Ammonites, and Chaldeans, not one vestige remains. The sixteenth verse is supposed to be a promise of the conversion of the Gentiles. See Eph 2:13-22. From the thirteenth verse to the end is a different discourse, and Dahler supposes it to have been delivered in the seventh or eighth year of the reign of Jehoiakim.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Prophecy as to the surrounding nations, the Syrians, Ammonites, &c., who helped forward Judah's calamity: they shall share her fall; and, on their conversion, they shall share with her in the future restoration. This is a brief anticipation of the predictions in the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth chapters. touch-- (Zec 2:8). pluck them out . . . pluck out . . .

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִ֖ם	ve.'Im	and if	H518 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יִשְׁמָ֑עוּ	yish.Ma.'u	they will listen	H8085 →
וְנָ֨תַשְׁתִּ֜י	ve.Na.tash.Ti	and I will pluck up	H5428 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַגּ֥וֹי	ha.Goy	the nation	H1471 →
הַה֛וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
נָת֥וֹשׁ	na.To.osh	plucking up	H5428 →
וְאַבֵּ֖ד	ve.'a.Bed	and destroying	H6 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָֽה׃ ס	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

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Through
Isaiah 60:12
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
leads to
- Isaiah 54:15
  If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.
- Zechariah 14:12–19
  And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in…
- Isaiah 14:2
  The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their…
- Psalms 2:12
  Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
- Isaiah 41:11
  Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.
Through
Ezekiel 19:12
But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.
leads to
- Hosea 13:15
  Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder…
- Ezekiel 17:10
  Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
- Isaiah 27:11
  When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator…

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