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Jeremiah 12

Jer. 12:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Many
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
pastors
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
have destroyed
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
my vineyard
kerem (Hebrew #3754)
a garden or vineyard
KJV usage: vines, (increase of the) vineyard(-s), vintage. See also 1021.
Pronounce: keh'-rem
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
, they have trodden
buwc (Hebrew #947)
to trample (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.
Pronounce: boos
Origin: a primitive root
my portion
chelqah (Hebrew #2513)
properly, smoothness; figuratively, flattery; also an allotment
KJV usage: field, flattering(-ry), ground, parcel, part, piece of land (ground), plat, portion, slippery place, smooth (thing).
Pronounce: khel-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 2506
under foot
buwc (Hebrew #947)
to trample (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.
Pronounce: boos
Origin: a primitive root
, they have made
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
my ρpleasant
chemdah (Hebrew #2532)
delight
KJV usage: desire, goodly, pleasant, precious.
Pronounce: khem-daw'
Origin: feminine of 2531
portion
chelqah (Hebrew #2513)
properly, smoothness; figuratively, flattery; also an allotment
KJV usage: field, flattering(-ry), ground, parcel, part, piece of land (ground), plat, portion, slippery place, smooth (thing).
Pronounce: khel-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 2506
a desolate
shmamah (Hebrew #8077)
feminine of 8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment
KJV usage: (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste.
Pronounce: shem-aw-maw'
Origin: or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}
wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
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portion of desire.

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Cross References

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pastors.
Jer. 6:3• 3{i}Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.{/i} (Jer. 6:3)
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Jer. 25:9• 9I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. (Jer. 25:9)
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Jer. 39:3• 3And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. (Jer. 39:3)
my vineyard.
Psa. 80:8‑16• 8A vine out of Egypt thou broughtest;{HR}Thou didst drive out nations, and didst plant it.
 9Thou preparedst [space] before it,{HR}And it took deep root and filled the land.
 10Mountains were covered with its shadow,{HR}And its boughs [were] cedars of God .
 11It sent out its branches unto the sea,{HR}And its shoots unto the river.
 12Why hast thou broken down its fence,{HR}So that all who pass by the way shall pluck it?
 13The boar out of the forest wasteth it,{HR}And the wild beast of the field feedeth on it.
 14O God of hosts, return, we pray;{HR}Look down even from the heavens and see,{HR}And visit this vine,
 15Even the stock which thy right hand planted,{HR}And the plant (son) thou madest strong for thyself.
 16[It is] burned with fire, cut down:{HR}At the rebuke of thy face they perish. (Psa. 80:8‑16)
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Isa. 5:1‑7• 1I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill;
 2and he dug it up, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
 3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
 4What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
 5And now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;
 6and I will lay it waste—it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
 7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold a cry. (Isa. 5:1‑7)
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Luke 20:9‑16• 9And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.
 10And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen having beaten him sent [him] away empty.
 11And again he sent another bondman; but they having beaten him also, and cast insult upon him sent [him] away empty.
 12And again he sent a third, and they having wounded him also, cast [him] out.
 13And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do. I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they see they will respect [him].
 14But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.
 15And having cast him forth out of the vineyard they killed [him]. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?
 16He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be! (Luke 20:9‑16)
trodden.
Isa. 43:28• 28Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and made Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling. (Isa. 43:28)
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Isa. 63:18• 18The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. (Isa. 63:18)
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Lam. 1:10‑11• 10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:{HR}For she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,{HR}Whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
 11All her people sigh, they seek bread;{HR}They have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:{HR}See, O Jehovah, and consider: for I am become vile. (Lam. 1:10‑11)
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Luke 21:14• 14Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand [your] defence; (Luke 21:14)
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Rev. 11:2• 2And the court that is without the temple cast out, and measure it not; for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread forty [and] two months. (Rev. 11:2)
pleasant portion.
Heb. portion of desire.
Jer. 3:19• 19{i}And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.{/i} (Jer. 3:19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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As "corrupted," Deut. 9.12.

W. Kelly Translation

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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,