John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 12:17

"But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah." — Jeremiah 12:17 (ASV)

But if they will not obey Or "hear" ^F11 ; the word of the Lord, and hearken to the ministers of the Gospel, and be subject to the ordinances of it; or as the Targum, "will not receive instruction:" I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the Lord : root it up from being a nation, strip it of all its privileges and enjoyments, and destroy it with an everlasting destruction; see (Zechariah 14:16–18) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F11: (wemvy) "audierint", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "audient", Cocceius.