Jeremiah 12 · Verse 14

Jeremiah 12:14

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, King James Version

Jeremiah 12:14 in other translations

BSB	This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
WEB	The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
ASV	Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
YLT	Thus said Jehovah concerning all my evil neighbours, who are striking against the inheritance that I caused my people--Israel--to inherit: ‘Lo, I am plucking them from off their ground, And the house of Judah I pluck out of their midst.
DARBY	Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
BBE	This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.
Webster	Thus saith the LORD against all my evil neighbors, 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.

What does Jeremiah 12:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 12:14-17

14-17. 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 ... Judah--(Compare end of Jr 12:16). During the thirteen years that the Babylonians besieged Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar, after subduing Coelo-Syria, brought Ammon, Moab, &c., and finally Egypt, into subjection [Josephus, Antiquities, 10:9.7]. On the restoration of these nations, they were to exchange places with the Jews. The latter were now in the midst of them, but on their restoration they were to be "in the midst of the Jews," that is, as proselytes to the true God (compare Mi 5:7; Zec 14:16). "Pluck them," namely, the Gentile nations: in a bad sense. "Pluck Judah": in a good sense; used to express the force which was needed to snatch Judah from the tyranny of those nations by whom they had been made captives, or to whom they had fled; otherwise they never would have let Judah go. Previously he had been forbidden to pray for the mass of the Jewish people. But here he speaks consolation to the elect remnant among them. Whatever the Jews might be, God keeps His covenant.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 14 Against all mine evil neighbors - All the neighboring nations who have united in desolating Judea shall be desolated in their turn: they also are wicked, and they shall be punished. If I make them executors of my justice, it is to them no proof of my approbation. God often uses one wicked nation to scourge another; and afterwards scourges the scourger by some other scourge. In some places a felon who was condemned to be hanged is made the common hangman for the county; he himself being still under the sentence of death, - Till soon some trusty brother of the trade Shall do for him what he has done for others.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 12:14-17

The Lord would plead the cause of his people against their evil neighbours. Yet he would afterwards show mercy to those nations, when they should learn true religion. This seems to look forward to the times when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in. Those who would have their lot with God's people, and a last end like theirs, must learn their ways, and walk in them.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 12:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כֹּ֣ה\׀kohthusH3541

אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559

יְהוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068

עַל\־'al-onH5921

כָּל\־kol-allH3605

שְׁכֵנַי֙she.khe.Naineighbors myH7934

הָֽרָעִ֔יםha.ra.'Im<the> evilH7451

הַנֹּֽגְעִים֙ha.no.ge.'Imwho touchH5060

בַּֽנַּחֲלָ֔הba.na.cha.Lah<in> the inheritanceH5159

אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834

הִנְחַ֥לְתִּיhin.Chal.tiI gave as an inheritanceH5157

אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853

עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971

אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853

יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

הִנְנִ֤יhi.Nihere IH2005

נֹֽתְשָׁם֙no.te.Sham[am] about to pluck up themH5428

מֵעַ֣לme.'Alfrom onH5921

אַדְמָתָ֔ם'ad.ma.Tamland theirH127

וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853

בֵּ֥יתbeit[the] house ofH1004

יְהוּדָ֖הye.hu.DahJudahH3063

אֶתּ֥וֹשׁ'e.To.oshI will pluck upH5428

מִתּוֹכָֽם\׃mi.to.Khamfrom among themH8432

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 12:14

Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Zephaniah 2:8-10
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 49:7
Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Zechariah 10:6-12
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord. I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. …
Zechariah 1:15
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Deuteronomy 30:3
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:1-17
The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. …
Isaiah 11:11-16
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. …
Psalms 106:47
Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Zephaniah 3:19-20
Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 3401. B.C. 603. against.
48:26,27; 50:9-17; 51:33-35; Eze 25:3-15; Am 1:2-15; Zep 2:8-10
that.
2:3; 49:1,7; Ps 105:15; Ob 1:10-16; Zec 1:15; 2:8; 12:2-4
I will.
48:1-51:64; Eze 25:1-32:32; 35:1-15
and pluck.
3:18; 32:37; De 30:3; Ps 106:47; Isa 11:11-16; Eze 28:25; 34:12,13
Eze 36:24; 37:21; 39:27,28; Ho 1:11; Am 9:14,15; Zep 3:19,20
Zec 10:6-12

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Context

Jeremiah 12:13
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.
Jeremiah 12:14
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 12:15
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.

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Jeremiah 12:14 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Así dijo Jehová contra todos mis malos vecinos, que tocan la heredad que hice poseer á mi pueblo Israel: He aquí que yo los arrancaré de su tierra, y arrancaré de en medio de ellos la casa de Judá.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Ainsi dit l’ Éternel contre tous mes mauvais voisins qui mettent la main sur l’héritage que j’ai fait hériter à mon peuple, à Israël: Voici, je les arracherai de dessus leur sol, et j’arracherai la maison de Juda du milieu d’eux.
German Elberfelder 1871	So spricht Jehova über alle meine bösen Nachbarn, welche das Erbteil antasten, das ich mein Volk Israel habe erben lassen: Siehe, ich werde sie aus ihrem Lande herausreißen, und das Haus Juda werde ich aus ihrer Mitte reißen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Hæc dicit Dominus adversum omnes vicinos meos pessimos, qui tangunt hæreditatem quam distribui populo meo Israël: Ecce ego evellam eos de terra sua, et domum Juda evellam de medio eorum.