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Jeremiah 9:12 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 12
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?Jeremiah 9:12 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:12 in context
10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- understandbîynto separate mentallyH995 →
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- perishethʼâbadproperly, to wander awayH6 →
- declarenâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- spokendâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- mouthpehthe mouth , whether literal or figurativeH6310 →
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Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22