Verš 1
Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?
Jób 21:7 - Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?
Ž 73:11 - Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?
Hab 1:3 - Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.
Verš 2
You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.
Iz 29:13 - And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,
Verš 3
And you, O Lord, have known me well. You have seen me, and you have tested my heart with you. Gather them together like a flock for the sacrifice and sanctify them for the day of slaughter.
Ž 17:3 - The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
Ž 139:1 - Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
Jer 11:20 - But you, O Lord of hosts, who judges justly, and who tests the temperament and the heart, let me see your vengeance against them. For I have revealed my case to you.
Verš 4
How long shall the earth mourn? And how long shall the plants of every field whither because of the wickedness of the inhabitants within them? It has consumed the wild animals and the birds. For they said: “He will not see our very end.”
Jer 4:25 - I looked, and there was no man. And all the flying things of the air had gone away.
Jer 7:20 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my fury and my indignation is kindled against this place, over men and over beasts, and over the trees of the countryside and over the fruits of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.”
Jer 9:10 - I will take up weeping and lamentation over the mountains, and mourning over the beautiful places in the desert. For they have been scorched because no man is passing through them. And they have not heard the voice of any occupant. From the birds of the air, even to the cattle, they have migrated and withdrawn.
Verš 6
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: ‘You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.’ ”
Prís 26:25 - When he will have lowered his voice, do not believe him, for there are seven vices in his heart.
Verš 9
Is my inheritance to me like a discolored bird? Is it like a bird that has entirely changed color? Approach and assemble, all beasts of the earth! Hurry, so that you may devour!
Jer 7:33 - And the corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the wild beasts of the land, and there will be no one to drive them away.
Verš 10
Many pastors have demolished my vineyard. They have trampled my portion. They have made my desirable portion into a desert of solitude.
Jer 6:3 - The pastors will come to her with their flocks. They have pitched their tents against her all around. Each one will feed those who are under his hand.
Verš 13
They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.
Lv 26:16 - then I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies.
Dt 28:38 - You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.
Verš 14
Thus says the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, who touch the inheritance that I have distributed to my people Israel: “Behold, I will root them out of their own land, and I will root the house of Judah out of their midst.
Dt 30:3 - then the Lord your God will lead you away from your captivity, and he will take pity on you, and he will gather you again from all the nations to which he had dispersed you before.
Jer 32:37 - Behold, I will gather them together from all the lands to which I have cast them out in my fury, and in my wrath, and in my great indignation. And I will lead them back to this place, and I will cause them to live in confidence.
Verš 17
But if they will not listen, I will uproot that nation unto utter destruction and perdition, says the Lord.”
Iz 60:12 - For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you will perish. And the Gentiles will be devastated by solitude.
Jer 12,2 - "Srdcu" – obličkám, pozri pozn. k 11,20.
Jer 12,3 - "Zasväť ich" znamená: "urči ich". Porov. tiež pozn. k 11,20.
Jer 12,5 - Pán porekadlami odpovedá prorokovi, že sa musí chystať i na väčšie prenasledovania. Keď si už teraz zúfa, čo bude robiť potom, keď budú proti nemu stáť oveľa nebezpečnejší nepriatelia? – V húštinách Jordánu bolo veľa divej zveri (porov. 49,19).
Jer 12,9 - Izrael so svojou pestrou modloslužbou ako strakatý, zďaleka viditeľný vták. Porov. Iz 56,9.
Jer 12,12 - Lúpežné národy sú nástrojom Božieho hnevu. "Telo", rozumej: živý tvor.
