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Jérémie 9:12

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12 Qui est l'homme sage qui entende ceci, à qui la bouche de l'Éternel ait parlé, et qui déclare pourquoi le pays est perdu, brûlé comme le désert, et sans personne qui y passe?

Jérémie 9:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man that may understand this?
&c.] Not the calamity, but the cause of it; a man of wisdom would inquire into it, find it out, and understand it; but the intimation is, that there was not a wise man among them, at least very few; there were scarce any that took any notice of these things, or were concerned about them: and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken;
and foretold this desolation and destruction; meaning a prophet: that he may declare it;
as from the Lord, namely, what follows: for what the land perisheth, and is burnt like a wilderness, that none
passeth through?
that is, what were the sins of the inhabitants of the land, which brought such distress upon it, and for which it became such a ruinous heap, and like the heath in the wilderness, so that it had no inhabitant, nor even a passenger: they must be some very great and abominable iniquities that were the cause of all this.

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Jérémie 9:12 In-Context

10 Sur les montagnes j'élèverai ma voix avec larmes, avec gémissements; et sur les pâturages du désert je prononcerai une complainte, car ils sont brûlés, et personne n'y passe. On n'y entend plus la voix des troupeaux; les oiseaux des cieux et le bétail se sont enfuis; ils ont disparu.
11 Et je réduirai Jérusalem en monceaux de ruines, en repaires de chacals; et je ferai des villes de Juda un désert sans habitants.
12 Qui est l'homme sage qui entende ceci, à qui la bouche de l'Éternel ait parlé, et qui déclare pourquoi le pays est perdu, brûlé comme le désert, et sans personne qui y passe?
13 L'Éternel a dit: C'est parce qu'ils ont abandonné ma loi, que j'avais mise devant eux, et qu'ils n'ont pas écouté ma voix et ne l'ont pas suivie;
14 Mais qu'ils ont suivi la dureté de leur cœur et les Baals, comme leurs pères.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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