Jeremiah 12:10

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Many{H7227} shepherds{H7462} have destroyed{H7843} my vineyard,{H3754} they have trodden{H947} my portion{H2513} under foot,{H947} they have made{H5414} my pleasant{H2532} portion{H2513} a desolate{H8077} wilderness.{H4057}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Many{H7227} pastors{H7462}{(H8802)} have destroyed{H7843}{(H8765)} my vineyard{H3754}, they have trodden{H947} my portion{H2513} under foot{H947}{(H8790)}, they have made{H5414}{(H8804)} my pleasant{H2532} portion{H2513} a desolate{H8077} wilderness{H4057}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Dyuerse hyrdme haue broken downe my vynyarde, and troden vpon my porcion. Of my pleasaunt porcion, they haue made a wildernes & deserte.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Many pastors haue destroyed my vineyarde, and troden my portion vnder foote: of my pleasant portion they haue made a desolate wildernesse.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Diuers heardmen haue broke downe my vineyarde, and troden vpon my portion: of my pleasaunt portion they haue made a wildernesse and desert.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness -- a desolation.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wilderness.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 63:18 : 18 For a little while your holy people possessed your sanctuary; our adversaries have trampled it underfoot.
  • Isa 5:1-7 : 1 Let me sing now for my beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a tower in its center and also carved out a winepress in it. He hoped it would produce good grapes, but it yielded only wild ones. 3 Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have already done? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes, did it yield only wild ones? 5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. 6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are the planting of His delight. He expected justice but saw bloodshed; He expected righteousness but heard cries of distress.
  • Ps 80:8-9 : 8 God of Hosts, restore us! Make your face shine upon us so that we may be saved. 9 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. 10 You cleared the ground for it; it took root and filled the land. 11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. 12 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River. 13 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit? 14 Boars from the forest ravage it, and creatures of the field feed on it. 15 God of Hosts, return! Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine. 16 The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 I myself said, “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.
  • Jer 6:3 : 3 Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents surrounding her and graze, each in his place.
  • Jer 23:1 : 1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins.
  • Jer 39:3 : 3 All the officials of the king of Babylon came and took seats in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsekim the chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer the chief magician, along with the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
  • Lam 1:10-11 : 10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly. 11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to stay alive. "Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised."
  • Luke 20:9-9 : 9 Then he began to tell the people this parable: 'A man planted a vineyard, leased it to some farmers, and went away for a long time. 10 At harvest time, he sent a servant to the farmers so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He proceeded to send another servant, but they also beat him, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12 Then he sent a third one, but they wounded him also and threw him out. 13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.' 14 But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Let’s kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.' 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?' 16 He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others. When they heard this, they said, 'May it never happen!'
  • Luke 21:14 : 14 Therefore, make up your minds not to prepare your defense beforehand.
  • Rev 11:2 : 2 But exclude the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.
  • Isa 43:28 : 28 So I will disgrace the officials of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 12:11-13
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    83%

    11 They have made it a desolation, and it mourns before me. The whole land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

    12 On all the barren heights in the wilderness, destroyers have come. For the sword of the LORD is devouring from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.

    13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; they have exhausted themselves to no profit. Be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Jer 12:7-9
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    7 I have abandoned my house, I have forsaken my inheritance; I have given the one I love into the hands of her enemies.

    8 My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest; she roars against me, therefore I hate her.

    9 Is my inheritance to me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey surrounding her? Come, gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

  • Jer 10:20-21
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    20 My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are broken. My children have left me—they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

    21 The shepherds are senseless and do not seek the Lord; therefore they do not prosper, and all their flock is scattered.

  • 7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

  • Jer 23:1-2
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    1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, declares the LORD.

    2 Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the shepherds who tend My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I am about to punish you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.

  • Ps 80:12-13
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    12 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.

    13 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

  • Isa 5:2-7
    6 verses
    76%

    2 He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a tower in its center and also carved out a winepress in it. He hoped it would produce good grapes, but it yielded only wild ones.

    3 Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

    4 What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have already done? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes, did it yield only wild ones?

    5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

    6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.

    7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are the planting of His delight. He expected justice but saw bloodshed; He expected righteousness but heard cries of distress.

  • 12 Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers; no one will deliver her out of my hand.

  • 6 My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to wander on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill and forgotten their resting place.

  • 19 Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Mark 12:8-9
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    8 So they took him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

    9 What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

  • Joel 1:10-11
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    10 The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

    11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

  • Jer 25:36-37
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    36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

    37 The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.

  • 10 The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.

  • 12 The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.

  • 4 On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • 17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild animals; they were scattered.

    6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

  • 17 They surround her like men guarding a field because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 10 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • 4 How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

  • Isa 32:12-13
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    73%

    12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines.

    13 The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.

  • 12 It is a fire that burns to destruction, consuming all my harvest.

  • 13 The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • 4 This is what the LORD my God says: ‘Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.’

  • 2 At the appointed time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

  • 10 The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse, the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their power is misused.

  • 15 The Lord has rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men. Like in a winepress, the Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah.

  • 6 He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.