KJV King James Version
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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Jeremiah 12:10
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
WEB World English Bible
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
ASV American Standard Version
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness—a desolation.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 12
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
9 Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it] to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
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.
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רֹעִ֤יםH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsרַבִּים֙H7227 · ravmanyשִֽׁחֲת֣וּH7843 · sha.chatto ruinכַרְמִ֔יH3754 · ke.remvineyardבֹּסְס֖וּH947 · busto trampleאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]חֶלְקָתִ֑יH2513 · chel.qahportionנָֽתְנ֛וּH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]חֶלְקַ֥תH2513 · chel.qahportionחֶמְדָּתִ֖יH2532 · chem.dahdesireלְמִדְבַּ֥רH4057 · mid.barmouthשְׁמָמָֽה׃H8077 · she.ma.mahdevastation
Cross-references
Isaiah 63:18The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.Isaiah 5:1-7Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:Jeremiah 23:1Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.Luke 20:9-16Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.Jeremiah 6:3The 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.Psalm 80:8-16Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.Isaiah 43:28Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.Luke 21:14Settle [it] therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:Lamentations 1:10-11The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.Revelation 11:2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.Jeremiah 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar 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.Jeremiah 39:3And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
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