Jeremiah 12:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Through - in. Even these remote scaurs do not escape, polluted as they had been by the nation’s idolatries.

Shall devour - Or, devoureth. These hosts of war come as Yahweh’s sword.

No flesh shall have peace - “Flesh” in Genesis 6:3 means mankind as sinners; here, Judah. “Peace” in Hebrew has the wider signification of “welfare, happiness.” Hence, their salutation in life was, “Peace be to thee,” and in death “In Peace” was engraved upon their sepulchres.

Jeremiah 12:12

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.