Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 12:10

10 Many Pastors have destroyed my vineyard , they have troden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion, a desolate wilderness .

By Pastors most here think Civil Persons, not Ecclesiastical Officers are meant; but they are divided, some interpreting it of the Rulers and Princes of Nebuchadnezzars Army, who took Jerusalem, and destroyed Iudah, called Gods vineyard, Isa. 5.1, 2. others understanding it of the Rulers of the Jews, who by their wicked Government, and as wicked Example had ruined their Country.

And caused God to turn the Country which he had chosen for his portion, and declared such a pleasure in, into a Wilderness, and such a Wilderness as was not onely thinly inhabited, but wholly desolate.

Marginal references: Heb. portion of desire.