Jeremiah 12:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. I will - destroy that nation - Several of them did not obey, and are destroyed. Of the Moabites, Ammonites, and Chaldeans, not one vestige remains. The sixteenth verse is supposed to be a promise of the conversion of the Gentiles. See Ephesians 2:13-22.

From the thirteenth verse to the end is a different discourse, and Dahler supposes it to have been delivered in the seventh or eighth year of the reign of Jehoiakim.

Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].

Jeremiah 12:17

17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.