In this chapter we have, I. The prophet’s humble complaint to God of the success that wicked people had in their wicked practices and his appeal to God concerning his own integrity , with a prayer that God would, for the sake of the public, bring the wickedness of the wicked to an end, Jer. 12:3–4.

The prophet doubts not but it would be of use to others to know what had passed between God and his soul, what temptations he had been assaulted with and how he had got over them; and therefore he here tells us, I.

The people of the Jews are here marked for ruin. I. God is here brought in falling out with them and leaving them desolate; and they could never have been undone if they had not provoked God to desert them.

The prophets sometimes, in God’s name, delivered messages both of judgment and mercy to the nations that bordered on the land of Israel: but here is a message to all those in general who had in their turns been one way or other injurious to God’s people, had either oppressed them or triumphed in…